Once We Were Walking in the Woods

Stories about the adventures of five young cousins visiting with their grandparents in the North Carolina mountains.

The five first cousins are all boys, ranging in age, at the time, from 8 to 12 years old: Dargan was twelve years old, Tobey, eleven, William, ten, Eli, nine, and Xavier, eight.

Each of the five chapters features one of the cousins. The chapters are written in short stories and all are fictional, but the setting, in the southern Appalachian Mountains near Brevard, North Carolina, is authentic. The chapter stories were developed in the context of bed-time stories for children in the age range of 6 to 12. However, some older children should also find them to be enjoyable short stories.