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BOOK DETAILS Paperback: 231 pages Dimensions: 6x9 Publisher: Crowbar Press Photos: 267 b&w Cover: Full color ISBN: 0-9745545-6-3 Item #: cbp00-jw Price: $19.95 FREE SHIPPING PayPal ORDERS Click BELOW
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PLEASE NOTE: This is NOT a book about a professional wrestler. This is the life story of John Walker, the father-in-law of Scott Teal, the owner of Crowbar Press. "John's Journey: From the Mill Hill to Nashville" is available directly from Crowbar Press. While supplies last, each book will be personally autographed by the author, John Walker.
The chances are good that you've never heard of John Walker, and yet, his story is remarkable. "John's Journey" is the true story of a boy born just two years before the "Crash of 1929," the event which signaled the beginning of the Great Depression. Growing up in the Delgado Village section of Wilmington, North Carolina, more commonly known to local residents as "Mill Hill," John provides an opportunity for readers to catch a glimpse of what life was like during the Depression and its aftermath, a time when the goal of a father was nothing more than to earn enough money to provide food and clothing for their family. He describes in detail a way of life that has long vanished. In today's modern era, when many people use poverty, family dysfunction, or lack of education, as an excuse for not getting ahead in life, John never expected to get anything without working hard. In 1945, with only a high school education, John W. Walker began a career in the railroad industry as a waybill sorter for Atlantic Coast Line. When he retired 45 years later, he was assistant vice president for corporate communications with CSX Rail Transport. This straightforward chronology of John's life details his heritage and birth, the growth of his family, and the 57 years he spent married to the one-and-only love of his life, Ilene Bayse Walker. Provocative, inspiring, and unflinchingly honest, John's Journey is the story of a remarkable, self-made, Christian man, told in his own words.
John is retired and lives in Hendersonville, Tennessee. He and his late wife, Ilene, are the parents of three children, seven grandchildren, and six great-grandchildren.
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