{"product_id":"9781469119793","title":"JOHN WILSON JUNIOR:Novel of the Northwestern Virginia Panhandle: Book 4","description":"I was born May 14th, 1931, on a farm 4\u003cbr\u003emiles west of the little town of Floyd,\u003cbr\u003eVirgina, in the mountains of southwest\u003cbr\u003eVirginia. I graduated from Floyd High\u003cbr\u003eSchool in May of 1947, second from the top in a class of 52 seniors.\u003cbr\u003eWe farmed without the benefi t of any type of modern equipment, using teams of horses, and had no electricity or running water in the house. We did have a telephone mounted on the wall, that had a crank on itâs side which was used to ring the local operator, and about the time I began school, we got a battery-powered radio. Itâs the truth, my older brother and I walked 1 1\/2 miles to catch a school bus.\u003cbr\u003eWhen my older brother graduated, he left home to go work in the West\u003cbr\u003eVirginia coal fi elds, and a year later I followed him. I left the coal fi elds to work for a General Contractor who at that time, was building roads but later became involved with strip mining in southwest Virginia, near Kentucky.\u003cbr\u003eThen I received my draft notice but elected to enlist and served in the Air\u003cbr\u003eForce during the Korean War.\u003cbr\u003eIn 1964, I began a career in Textiles and Garment Manufacturing. When\u003cbr\u003eI retired at the end of December, 2008, I was the Director of Import and\u003cbr\u003eExports for a large Textile company, and had lived in Spartanburg, S.C. for\u003cbr\u003e26 years. We bought a home in Mt. Carmel, Tennessee, to be near my wifeâs family who all live in east Tennessee","brand":"Xlibris Corporation","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47129536954608,"sku":"9781469119793","price":3.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781469119793_p0.jpg?v=1763698353","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781469119793","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}