Sticks, Stones & Songs by Eleanor Corey

Sticks, Stones & Songs by Eleanor Corey

In 1937, with the cash in his pocket, Arthur Corey purchases a grange hall, a derelict, drafty, long-deserted building destined to become the family residence into which babies, including the author, are born, one after another, after another. These children learn lessons via the school of hard knocks, transform throw-aways into tools, and become all too familiar with an outhouse where catalogs are used instead of toilet paper.

Arthur paid the auctioneer, buttoned his threadbare tweed overcoat, pinched the front creases of his brown fedora, and settled it on his head. He bounded down the courthouse steps and scurried up the sidewalk, document in hand--it was a done deal

-Excerpt from Sticks, Stones & Songs Chronicle One

Sticks, Stones & Songs is a powerful recounting of faith in real life that crescendos through the years. I loved getting to know the Corey family through this story and was encouraged in my walk with God

--Margaret Phillips, MLP Reporting, Inc.

Eleanor Corey drew me into a multi-generational memoir of her rural American family. She has embraced candor in telling the story of her clan within the context of community and history in a way that is vulnerable and transparent. Sticks, Stones & Songs will inspire you to recover your own ancestral secrets.

--Heidi Mitchell, Literary Agent, D. C. Jacobson & Associates, LC.

Sticks, Stones & Songs offers a rare glimpse of a bygone era and the people who made the woods of the wild Pacific Northwest their home. This is no sugar-coated account but life as it was with all its raw edges and loose ends.

--Laura Frantz, Author of Love's Reckoning

Corey, Eleanor: - Eleanor Corey Guderian lives with her husband Ron in Stanwood Washington-less than an hour drive from their three children and families. She holds a BA degree from Seattle Pacific University, an MA from Azusa Pacific University, and a PhD from Walden University. She has authored business workshops and magazine articles, and has earned a Distinguished Toastmaster Award. After careers in Ecuador and the US as a musician, manager, and consultant, Eleanor became a full-time writer. Her 2014 memoir, Sticks Stones & Songs-The Corey Story, portrays life within a spunky, authentic, and imperfect family of twelve in mid-century rural America. She wrote this book, Pots, Pans & Peace-The Legacy of Margaret Corey, to tell the rest of the story from her mother's perspective.

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ISBN 13	9781490859767
ISBN 10	1490859764
Title	Sticks, Stones & Songs
Author	Eleanor Corey
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	WestBow Press
Year published	2014-12-05
Number of pages	288
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.