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BY JANET S. SPENCER
HOMETOWN NEWS
Photo by Janet S. Spencer.
Author Jerrold Peeler of Blacksburg displays, “Thicketty,” his recently released work of historical fiction. He also drew the cover’s art.
Jerrold Peeler of the Pleasant Hills community in Blacksburg is a storyteller.
His yarns are based on information gleaned as a child from his great-grandfather’s cache of memories eagerly shared by Peeler’s aging uncles and aunts with any members of the younger generations who would listen.
Peeler, 73, is proud to have been in their audiences.
He absorbed the anecdotes with a hunger for more and retells them today with a slight spin that might have gotten him in trouble at an earlier age with the original narrators of his great-grandfather’s recollections.
But an effective and careful twist in his recently-released first book, “Thicketty,” gives the reader not only an appreciation of his love of history but details a way of life from well over a century ago.
For the rest of the story, see this week’s issue of The Blacksburg Times.
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