Bob Thompson 
Stitched Together [PDF ebook] 
Stories of a Kentucky Life

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When Bob Thompson asked his granny years ago why she continued to create so many of her beautiful quilts, she said it was the only way she could reach across time, touching and giving her descendants her energy. And just like his granny, Thompson’s gift of storytelling provides a reverence and buoyancy all its own. This collection combines personal and family experiences to create a patchwork quilt of gripping stories with the comfort of memory.

Thompson draws on his mother’s seventy years of diaries, handwritten notes, and recipe cards to reveal that every story, no matter how small, has some wisdom to impart. He describes how, as a child, he would pass his days on the front porch of his granny’s country store in western Kentucky and listen to regulars swap stories and spin yarns, which cemented his passion for storytelling. His granny’s methods of quilting provide an interesting perspective on life: ‘She never hurried; her stitches were small and even. Fascinated with numbers, I counted as many as eight hundred per square and did the math, sixteen thousand for a twin-bed-sized quilt! When I mentioned that some of Great-Grandmother Brim’s quilts had stitches so large that you could get your big toe caught in them, Granny smiled and said, ‘It’s not the size of the stitches that count, it’s the spaces between them.”

Thompson’s poignant narratives of community, friends, and family impart the significance of the quiet moments and meaningful spaces between everyday events. In doing so, they demonstrate that there is something to be gained from every human experience.

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Foreword by Lee Pennington
Introduction
Bunk’s Bull
Harp
Rocket Science
Motorsports
Balerman
Not Much Danger
The Entertainer
Threads
Beta Club
Ben
Rupp
Treachery
Spelling Bee
Cats
Boundaries
Hunter
Tree Climber
Catfish Throw
Jump
That’s My Dad
Running
Flagger
Searchlight
Old Fart
The Call
Traveling Lite
Going Down
Garages
Periwinkles
The Internet of Things
Teetum
Sangria

عن المؤلف

Bob Thompson is a writer, storyteller, engineer, handyman, tree hugger, and explorer of other dimensions. He is chairman and program director for E.A.R.S., which produces the Corn Island Storytelling Festival and the Kentucky Homefront Radio show.

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لغة الإنجليزية ● شكل PDF ● صفحات 192 ● ISBN 9780813178073 ● حجم الملف 18.6 MB ● الناشر The University Press of Kentucky ● مدينة Lexington ● بلد US ● نشرت 2019 ● للتحميل 24 الشهور ● دقة EUR ● هوية شخصية 7096080 ● حماية النسخ Adobe DRM
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