Mill Village Boy

This book has no involvement with any of the Fowler families worldwide. Intimate Thoughts the debut novel from Star Fowler will make you laugh, cry and leave you wondering how does the leading character Ebony have the time and energy to accomplish all that she does. Ebony is a young woman who is determined to change the negative chain that has plagued five generations in her family. From as far back as the 1920's their mothers did not raise the women in her family and she is set on a quest not to allow this to happen to her daughters. She in turns put forth every possible effort to make a better life for them.

Ray Pettit has experienced amazing adventures. Check Point Charlie, Argentine Terrorists, Greenland Ice Cap, Earthquake Entrapment, Secret Service Agents, CIA/NSA/FBI, Pentagon Consultant; Movie/TV Acting, Hullabaloo Teen Club, GPS and Cell-phones Development, Patents for Satellite/Submerged Submarine Communications, Professor of Electrical Engineering for 40 years, Author of Classic Engineering Reference Book, “ECM and ECCM for Digital Communication Systems.” --- Amazing Adventures All!

On May 12, 1960, as John F. Kennedy campaigned for the presidency, Chester Burge—slumlord, liquor runner, and the black sheep of the proud (and wealthy) Dunlap family of Macon, Georgia—lay in a hospital bed, recovering from surgery. He listened to the radio as the news reported that his wife had just been murdered. Police soon ruled out robbery as a motive, and suspicion centered upon the Ku Klux Klan, which two weeks earlier had descended upon his house to protest his renting of homes in white neighborhoods to black families. Then, on June 1, Chester was charged with the murder, and when the trial finally began, the sweet Southern town of Macon witnessed a story of epic proportions—a tale of white-columned mansions, an insane asylum, real people as “Southern grotesque” as the characters of Flannery O'Connor, and a volatile mix of taboo interracial relationships and homosexuality. This was a story as fantastical as a Greek tragedy, complete with a stunning conclusion. It is told in riveting detail in Richard Jay Hutto's A Peculiar Tribe of People. Chester Burge was a walking streak of deception and sex. After weaseling his way to be the caretaker of the last Dunlap sister and forcing his way into her will, Burge and his family inherited a fortune as well as one of the family mansions. Then came his numerous assignations with men—including his black chauffeur—and, either single-handedly or with help from a lover, the murder of his wife. The trial would spawn the first testimony in Georgia history of a black man disclosing that he had been a white man's sexual partner. Burge would be acquitted of murder, but convicted of sodomy. And yet, this Southern grotesque tale would take even more twists and turns before coming to an explosive conclusion.

27 D Street is a creative selection of short stories recollected by a young boy growing up in a small mill village in Georgia in the early 1950s. The stories and the unique characters that played them out in real life, over time, became the village that shaped the young boy, Lawrence, and his life. From Grandma Bledsoe, to Mr. Marvin, to the mill village baseball team, to his buddy Harold to the Goat Man himself, each led lasting impressions on his life. Yearning for something better than owing your soul to the mill village store, Lawrence had dreams of something better. Or, looking back, was it that bad? Each chapter is a descriptive memory picture that still hangs on the walls of the author's mind to this day. Readers may expect: ● To have their heart stirred with getting to know the vibrant characters in each chapter ● To laugh at the funny stories told from the perspective of a young boy and to cry when he learns of loss and unwelcomed change ● To think back with a reflection on the characters of the village that helped raise them ● To realize that sometimes where we are in time is just as important as where we think we want to be When you finish this book, if you haven't already during the middle, pick up the phone and call your Grandmother, just to tell her you love her. If you don't have a Grandmother, call the woman or man in your childhood that you savor the good in you that they poured into you. Call them and just tell them you love them. Don't text, don't email, no social media. Call them.

Ray Pettit has experienced amazing adventures. Check Point Charlie, Argentine Terrorists, Greenland Ice Cap, Earthquake Entrapment, Secret Service Agents, CIA/NSA/FBI, Pentagon Consultant; Movie/TV Acting, Hullabaloo Teen Club, GPS and Cell-phones Development, Patents for Satellite/Submerged Submarine Communications, Professor of Electrical Engineering for 40 years, Author of Classic Engineering Reference Book, "ECM and ECCM for Digital Communication Systems." --- Amazing Adventures All!