May His Face Shine Up On You And Give You Peace.  May brings tears to many of us, and it is felt more deeply as the years go by, for it becomes harder when in the late nights we remember the faces who have gone and come within our own lives.  I see mother by her white roses and Daddy on his front porch just waiting for us to come home for Decoration Dad, and though I would choose a Catholic future, I know that the worshippers at the old church were I grew up are still singing, “When We All Get To Heaven,” –  What a joyful day that will be!”

Honeysuckle would be there, and we would all be remembering or saying, “Goodbye,” to someone going off to school, just somehow away, away.

Thank You For The Reminder.

Barbara Everett Heintz, Author of Pinkhoneysuckle the Blog And “Pinkhoneysuckle” the book on Amazon, Kindle, and Create Space, Re:  One Woman’s Journey Through The Appalachian Farmers’s Diaspora  To be featured with Lee Hay, Cincinnati, WVXU

Also Kathryn Kraaper, of *64, A Syndicated Television Show May 18th

Signing At Joseph Beth Bookstore – Norwood Commons, Cincinnati, Early June

This is our Appalachian Diaspora — When All Would Change In Southern Appalachia, Including or self reliance and pride, our hope our faith.  It is fully our, “Grapes of Wrath,” from the cotton fields to the old churches we loved, and the hidden American shame we bore as, “The New White and Black Trash,” as our fathers were forced into northern factories.  I hope that you will see why this book has won awards from California to breaking open middle America’s silence for a people who deserved a better day in May, 60 years ago.  God Bless Everyone who walked it with me.  Barbara Everett Heintz, Amazon, Kindle, Create Space