Short Call

Joyce Gibson Roach has collected snippets of stories, recipes, and traditions of life in Turtle, Texas, which represents many small townsand the people who inhabit them. Many of the younger generations leave such towns, finding both place and society crumbling. Those whove stayed are finding new and interesting ways to put themselves and their places back together. Both the short and long pieces herein are about the folks whove elected to stay generation after generation, knowing that for them wherever theyve stayed is still the Home Place. The characters viewpoints are personal, sometimes agreeing with facts found in history books and sometimes not.