Other Voices, Other Towns: The Traveler's Story

Other Voices, Other Towns: The Traveler's Story
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&quot;Other Voices, Other Towns&quot; has, in reality, taken Caleb Pirtle III a lifetime to write. During the thirty years he has been writing about travel across this great land, he spent much of his time listening to those whose paths he crossed. <br><br>Pirtle collects people. He collects their stories. He is firmly convinced that everyone who has ever walked across the street has a great story to tell if only someone will take the time to listen.<br><br>Pirtle has recorded many of them in &quot;Other Voices, Other Towns.&quot; The sketches, the anecdotes, the tales they tell, the memories they have stored, their lessons of life make you feel better or make you want to cry. <br>Their stories are filled with disappointments and with inspiration: The blind man who tends his beehives in the Smoky Mountains and knows that someday &quot;I&#39;m going to where the mountains are higher and prettier and you don&#39;t get bee stung.&quot; The rancher who bought a whole town because it had a beer joint, and he could get a drink any time he was thirsty. The woman who built a major university on the strength of a dime. The grieving father searching for &quot;the best little girl in the world.&quot; The vagabond who became a great writer because he flunked grammar and could not enroll in college. The last man on the mountain, the last survivor on an island, the last woman strong enough to tame though not civilize the Okefenokee Swamp. The teacher who taught history in school by singing the lessons he had written as songs. The men who created &quot;Lum and Abner.&quot; The scientist digging for clues to prove a space ship had crashed in the backyard of Aurora, Texas. The performer who rescued the abandoned remains of a crumbling theater. The actor who figured out that a theater ticket was worth a mess of greens or a gallon milk during the Great Depression. The old con artist and wildcatter who defied the odds and discovered a great oilfield. The politician who had one cause, passed it in the legislature, and went home because there were no other bills that concerned him. The fishermen who stumbled across pearls in a landlocked lake. The girl singer who rode in a small RV behind the star until she became the star. The sad journey down the trail of broken promises. And the greatest worm fiddler of them all.<br>For Pirtle, other voices in other towns, have all been joined together to form the traveler&#39;s story.

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Caleb Pirtle III. Other Voices, Other Towns: The Traveler's Story

Last Man on The Mountain

Elkmont, Tennessee. Pop: 0

High Country Secrets

Johnson City, Tennessee. Pop: 61,990

Barter for The Bard

Abingdon, Virginia. Pop: 7,780

Anvil With A Song

Spruce Pine, North Carolina. Pop: 2030

The Blessing of Bessie

Asheville, North Carolina. Pop: 76,636

The Conscience of America

Flat Rock, North Carolina. Pop: 2,565

For Whom The Bells Ring

Ocracoke Island, North Carolina. Pop: 784

The Gray Man

Pawleys Island, South Carolina. Pop: 138

Attorney for Mister Drum

Frankfort, Kentucky. Pop: 27,741

Moon Shot

Chatsworth, Georgia. Pop: 3,531

Tattered Dreams Don’t Fade

Rome, Georgia. Pop: 34,980

A Three Pickup Place

Helen, Georgia. Pop: 420

Lady of The Swamp

Waycross, Georgia. Pop: 14,774

Serenade of Worm Fiddlers

Caryville, Florida. Pop: 2,880

When The Dead Speak

Cassadaga, Florida. Pop. 100

Handy Man with The Blues

Florence, Alabama. Pop: 37,877

The Girl Singer

Scottsboro, Alabama. Pop:14,762

Angel on The Lake

Pell City, Alabama. Pop: 9,565

Rust Amongst The Relics

Lorman, Mississippi. Pop: 4,138

Requiem for A Tree

Hattiesburg, Mississippi. Pop: 44,779

Sons of The Atchafalaya

Breaux Bridge, Louisiana. Pop. 6,596

King of The Gate Crashers

New Orleans, Louisiana. Pop. Fluid

Down at The Jot ‘em Down

Pine Ridge, Arkansas

Sounds of The Ozarks

Mountain View, Arkansas

Ballad of Carnation Milk

Canyon, Texas

The Last Belle of Tascosa

Tascosa, Texas

A Friend Unexpected

Matador, Texas

Locket for A Little Lady

Dalhart, Texas

Legacy of A Mad Man

Post, Texas

Wrong Man, Wrong Place

Kermit, Texas

Last Dance at Christmas

Anson, Texas

Riches of The Good Earth

Burkburnett, Texas

Love Lost in The Wind

Fort Davis, Texas

Confessions of A Soiled Soul

Alpine, Texas

Mystery in The Marfa Skies

Marfa, Texas

Keeping The Faith

Presidio, Texas

A Godmother in The Desert

Hot Springs, Texas

The Spring of Dry Bones

Marathon, Texas

Bury My Heart in Palo Pinto

Palo Pinto

The Stage That Didn’t Stay Dark

Granbury, Texas

Journey Home to Die

Italy, Texas

Battle for The Damned

Fort Worth, Texas

It Came from Outer Space

Aurora, Texas

The Man Who Made Luckenbach

Luckenbach, Texas

Sanctified Sisters

Belton, Texas

Whatever It Was, Or Wasn’t

Saratoga, Texas

A Promise Kept

Honey Island, Texas

Desperate Gamble

Kilgore, Texas

Few Kind Words for Possums

Gilmer, Texas

On The Fringe of Flight

Pittsburg, Texas

Curse of the Railroad Man

Jefferson, Texas

Pearls of Wisdom

Uncertain, Texas

The Trail Where They Cried

Tahlequah, Oklahoma

Puzzle of The Runestone

Heavener, Oklahoma

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My travels have never been measured in miles, only in people. The places I’ve gone, the sights I’ve seen, the long back roads I’ve walked have never been as important as the people I’ve met along the way.

Their voices stay with me. So do the stories they have told me.

.....

Down in the valley was the dastardly Ephraim Bales. He could hoe corn all day long, some said, without ever standing on Tennessee soil. Ephraim Bales would simply walk across the rocks, find a pile of loose dirt, press a corn kernel into the earth, then step on to the next stone. His was a hard life. But then, it was never easy living in a two-room cabin with a wife, nine children, and a mother-in-law. Ephraim Bales was known as the meanest man in the valley. He had his reasons. He was feared. He was cursed. Men rode miles out of their way to keep from passing his cabin.

No one mourned him when he died. Ephraim Bales was buried in the rich sod of his own backyard, and no one came to the funeral. The pews were as empty as his life had been. On Monday, Bales had stalked off into the woods and cut down a chestnut tree, then hauled it by mule to a sawmill. “Cut it up in planks,” he ordered.

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