Books with author James Campbell Lewis

Hundreds of hardy people have tried to carve a living in the Alaskan bush, but few have succeeded as consistently as Heimo Korth. In The Final Frontiersman, Heimo's cousin James Campbell chronicles the Korth family's amazing experience, their adventures, and the tragedy that continues to shape their lives. With a deft voice and in spectacular detail, Campbell invites us into Heimo's heartland and home. The Korths wait patiently for a small plane to deliver their provisions, listen to distant chatter on the radio, and go sledding at forty-four degrees below zero -- all the while cultivating the hard-learned survival skills that stand between them and a terrible fate.

Boyface Antelope has been waiting his whole life to turn ten and be allowed to enter his parents' stripemongering shop so he can take stripes off animals and put them on something different. Like tartan onto badgers, or removing the stripes of zebras to make ponies. On the morning of his tenth birthday he finds his parents ill, and they ask him not just to go in the shop but to look after it on his own! Will he be able to keep the stripemongery running smoothly?

This is my storyMy story is still on going because I am still living.From my story :I have made my fair share of mistakes and I have learnt from it all.It took me a while to find myself but eventually I did.I became a woman who made my own decisions.I have become a woman who pleases no soul.I have become a woman made out of my mistakes.I am happy where I am now.I have come to love me for me.I have found a stand.

During the mid to late 1960’s the Civil Rights era was in full bloom.Martin Luther King preached a message of non-violence, one that others would ignore. In fact there were some who wanted to ‘Kill Whitey’.With Dr. King’s assassination in the spring of 1968, things would take an ominous turn.Black students, swept up in revenge rhetoric, would strike out using their fists on those at hand. In my case, it was at Menlo-Atherton High School, the premiere public secondary school on San Francisco’s mid-peninsula.Those not swept up in the violence treasured each other and excelled on and off the fields.Track would consume me, especially winning gold.With this backdrop things exploded in the fall of 1966.Although the ‘The Summer of Love’ followed a year later, few could guess what would follow.This is a story about love, romance, vibrant music, friendship and sports excellence.Back then they were the only things that mattered.However the politics of the day would drag many of us down.Some didn’t think we would make it; even now, there are those who are still affected.Reflection illuminates.That overriding thought takes precedence throughout this memoir.I hope you enjoy it.James C. LewisAugust 2016