tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-88761081130543299552024-03-16T11:51:17.667-07:00The Moonlight Ridge SeriesRamey Channellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03340802949382192661noreply@blogger.comBlogger57125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8876108113054329955.post-88231893398173781432023-05-10T09:11:00.007-07:002023-05-10T09:11:57.773-07:00Book Trailer: Sweet Music on Moonlight Ridge: Music by Roy Burkett and Nancy Veldman<iframe class="BLOG_video_class" allowfullscreen="" youtube-src-id="M0lu2dSO4_I" width="400" height="322" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/M0lu2dSO4_I"></iframe>
Ramey Channellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03340802949382192661noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8876108113054329955.post-76237539188138235612022-05-24T08:56:00.000-07:002022-05-24T08:56:01.883-07:00Treasure Review from Don Noble❤ Erskine Batson is a walking vocabulary lesson who never uses a simple word if a long word can be found. When he is late collecting the garbage he exclaims, “I’m derelict in my duties. I feel somewhat remiss.”
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Ramey Channellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03340802949382192661noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8876108113054329955.post-16646195732660083892022-05-07T08:51:00.002-07:002022-05-07T08:53:04.607-07:005 Star Review from Readers' Favorite
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Reviewed by Rolanda Lyles for Readers' Favorite :
Two cousins, Lily Claire and Willie T., are more than just cousins; they are best friends. They do everything together. They are more like siblings because Willie T. never seems to go home! It's getting close to Christmas in their backwoods town of Eden, Alabama. The cousins are together while their parents are at church "hanging the greens." They find themselves face to face with a desperate stranger at their front door, near-naked in the middle of a snow storm! The stranger turns out to be rock-n-roll star Neon Leon and he is on the run in need of help. The fearless cousins, along with their teacher, Mr. Erskine Batson, find themselves knee-deep in chilling circumstances beyond anything they had ever imagined. The gang works together to help Leon escape from his captors and make a discovery that leads them all on an unsuspected adventure.
Ramey Channell's The Treasure of Moonlight Ridge is an amazing children's adventure full of excitement and imagination. Set in a small backwoods town in Alabama in the 1950s, the language and personality of the characters show that much thought and consideration of the time period was taken. I appreciate Channell's witty writing of the characters and their humor and motives. This dynamic duo is fearless and always willing to perform a task when needed. A story that both adults and children can enjoy, Ramey Channell's The Treasure of Moonlight Ridge is sure to knock your socks off. I look forward to exploring again with Lily Claire and Willie T. in more of Channell's writing.
https://readersfavorite.com/book-review/the-treasure-of-moonlight-ridgeRamey Channellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03340802949382192661noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8876108113054329955.post-17102273112494702562022-04-25T09:20:00.007-07:002022-05-07T12:00:33.998-07:00There Is Magic All Around Us!<a href="https://alabamawriterscooperative.org/news/2022/4/25/there-is-magic-all-around-us-a-conversation-with-ramey-channell"></a><a href="about:invalid#zSoyz"></a><a href="https://alabamawriterscooperative.org/news/2022/4/25/there-is-magic-all-around-us-a-conversation-with-ramey-channell"></a>
Thanks so much to Bradley Sides and Alabama Writers' Cooperative for this interview on the AWC Blog!
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Ramey Channellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03340802949382192661noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8876108113054329955.post-5581066723914590142022-02-24T09:19:00.002-08:002022-02-24T09:19:40.387-08:00Fun Times on Moonlight Ridge!I once lived on a mountain called Moonlight Ridge, and it seemed like a mystical place then. Looking back, I still think there was more than a little bit of enchantment there. We lived and played like wild children of the woods, and we never imagined that there was any life or any home more desirable than our own.
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Share the fun, surprises, and magic on Moonlight Ridge, just east of Eden!Ramey Channellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03340802949382192661noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8876108113054329955.post-85832872117129757372021-11-15T13:05:00.001-08:002021-11-15T13:05:34.368-08:00Book Launch * The Treasure of Moonlight Ridge *I'm so excited to announce the long-awaited arrival of book three of The Moonlight Ridge series, <b>The Treasure of Moonlight Ridge</b>, a surprising, almost true story, just in time for the holiday season!
After rescuing a lost infant in book one, Sweet Music on Moonlight Ridge, and meeting witches on the mountain in book two, The Witches of Moonlight Ridge, in <b>The Treasure of Moonlight Ridge</b> the two protagonists meet a mysterious visitor in the middle of a snow storm, discover a secret code message that leads to a treasure map, and evade kidnappers as they search for hidden treasure at Christmastime on the mountain.
And their intrepid fourth grade teacher, Erskine Batson, is right there with Lily Claire and Willie T. on this 'Christmas on the Mountain' adventure, along with beloved brown dog, Witch Boy, and a surprise larger-than-life visitor!
Join the fun and adventure in the search for <b>The Treasure of Moonlight Ridge</b>. Paperback available from Amazon, or request it from your favorite local bookstore.
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Ramey Channellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03340802949382192661noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8876108113054329955.post-44676995362698681302021-06-23T16:55:00.005-07:002021-06-24T16:54:21.681-07:00New Sweet Music on Moonlight Ridge book trailer!I'm so happy to share my new <i>Sweet Music on Moonlight Ridge </i>book trailer! Many thanks to Barrel Rider Productions for this awesome video.
Thanks to Roy Burkett and Nancy Veldman for the Sweet Music!
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Great-granddaddy W.T. Greenberry purely doted on possums. My great-grandmother, however, hated, abhorred, and despised possums, with their little beady eyes and their long old tails scraping around through the house. W.T. brought so many possums into the house that great-grandmother would open the back door and call Rich Man and Poor Man, the hunting dogs, into the house to chase the possums out, and they’d raise a ruckus all through the house, chasing possums up the draperies and under tables and up the bed posts. And Great-granddaddy W.T.? He’d grab anything he could find, a broom or a rifle or an umbrella, and go chasing the dogs and leaping over chairs and devonettes and yelling.
“Run, possums, run! Run, little possums!” W.T. implored the scattering possums as he tore through the house in a state of mad panic.
“Ye bastards! Ye cursed bastards! Great sons of bitches!” he bawled at the hounds, warping at the big old clumsy dogs, whacking them across their heads until they ran back out the door, whining and yelping.
Then W.T. would yell out the back door, “Hounds from Hell! Murderous mongrels! Keep away from my marsupials!”Ramey Channellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03340802949382192661noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8876108113054329955.post-45017279360686584442020-07-04T09:02:00.001-07:002020-07-04T09:26:52.794-07:00Happy 4th of July Birthday to My Dad<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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"As the story goes," Erskine told us,"Uncle Jasper says there was a famous robber that hid out in these woods. He robbed the stage coach on several occasions, and always got away with it. Rode a beautiful Andalusian horse he'd bought from the Moor, the inn keeper. For years he pestered travelers on this road, stole gold and silver coins and jewelry.<br />
"But, he finally got caught. A troop of soldiers was layin' for him out here in the woods, one night. Shot him right here, in front of the inn, with his sweetheart lookin' on.<br />
" They called him the Highwayman."<br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">There she
stood right before us, almost close enough to touch. And she was beautiful. She
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">"Who
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">“My name’s
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Willie
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his hand stretched out like he was going to touch her to see if she was real.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Willie T.
couldn’t take his eyes off the pretty girl, whatever she was: ghost or human,
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">“Gyaah!”
he exclaimed. “Up there with the panthers and the bob cats, and whatever and
all? I didn’t know nobody lived up there! You ever seen a panther?” he asked,
narrowing his eyes at the strange young woman.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Thanks so much to the very talented Alabama writer, Mike Burrell, author of the newly published novel <i><b>The Land of Grace</b></i>, for this review. Here's what Mike had to say about <i><b>The Witches of Moonlight Ridge</b></i>:<br />
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<span style="background: white; color: #181818; font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">The setting of Moonlight Ridge is a pervading
force in this charming novel. It’s a believable setting, filled with loving
parents and happy, adventurous children. But it’s also a mysterious land of
ruins, a magical forest, witches, sinister lawmen, KKK, monsters, all swirling
in history, legends, and myths that its characters can almost reach out and
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<span style="background: white;">The timeline of the story is also important
in that the tale unfolds back in the </span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">1950s </span><span style="background: white; color: #181818; font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">in a Tom Sawyer/Huckleberry Finn kind of world
when parents didn’t hover over their children and think </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: georgia, serif;">it
necessary that every movement of their children be somehow supervised. An
example is when the grandmother prepared a picnic lunch for the children and
told them to go find the cat, knowing they would be wandering the woods all
day. I’m not sure this could happen today, and I can almost hear readers wonder
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<span style="background: white;">The first-person narrator, Lily Claire, is a
young girl. She’s convincing in her narrative and the wonder she finds in the
world around her. She is drawn so deftly that at no time does the author
intrude on Lily’s story. Her sidekick is her cousin, Willie T. All of the
characters are sharply drawn, and the dialogue artfully rendered so as to
project regionalism without implying ignorance. My favorite character, and the
most complex member of the cast, is Erskine Batson, the garbage man/reluctant
school teacher who falls in love with the beautiful witch, Evy. </span><br />
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<span style="background: white;">A delightful and charming story for the young
reader as well as certain seventy-two year old men who enjoy a little magic
mixed with memories of a rural childhood.</span></span></div>
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<i><a href="http://mikeburrell.com/about/">About - Mike Burrell</a></i><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: "lato" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Here's how our fourth grade teacher, Erskine Batson, first told us about the Highwayman - </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: "lato" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 18px;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: "lato" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">“This place is full of history,” Erskine told us, shaking his head a little. “Surprising that nobody seems to talk about it.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: "lato" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">“As the story goes, Uncle Jasper says there was a famous robber that hid out in these woods. He robbed the stage coach on several occasions, and always got away with it. Rode a beautiful Andalusian horse he’d bought from the Moor, the inn keeper. For years he pestered travelers on this road, stole gold and silver coins and jewelry.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: "lato" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">He finally got caught. A troop of soldiers was layin’ for him out here in the woods, one night. Shot him right here, in front of the inn.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: "lato" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">“They called him the Highwayman,” Erskine added as he snapped the stem off a dead weed and started scratching the back of his head with it.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: "lato" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">“Uncle Jasper says he’d never harmed a soul. Stole a bunch of loot, though. President James Buchanan hisself had put out a warrant for our Highwayman, put a bounty on his head, because of this being an important travel route down through here to the southern shipping ports.”</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: "lato" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">It seemed to me like Erskine’s tale had finally jogged something loose in my brain. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: "lato" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">“The Highwayman? I’ve heard Papa Jasper sing that song about the Highwayman! It’s a sad song.” </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: "lato" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">“Um hm,” Erskine agreed. “He sang that song for me just a few days ago, when I was pickin’ at him for information. It’s a sad tune, all right. But the song was originally copied from a poem written by an Englishman named Alfred Noyes, about a robber highwayman in old England. But it’s so close to the same story that happened here, Uncle Jasper says when he was a boy, everybody thought the song was written about the Moor’s Gap highwayman. The poem, too. A strange case of coincidence. King George’s army killed the highwayman in England, and it was the local militia killed our highwayman here on Moor’s Gap Road. Shot him dead, with his sweetheart lookin’ on.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">My purpose for visiting the archives was to do research for the book I'm currently working on, historical fiction based on events taking place in Birmingham in the early years of the 20th century. The beautiful, indomitable, and intrepid protagonist of this novel is my always kind, always fun-loving, adventurous grandmother, born in 1890, who was instrumental in shaping my views on justice, fairness, good times, and good literature! </span><br />
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Ramey Channellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03340802949382192661noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8876108113054329955.post-33569129920297787702018-01-29T11:01:00.000-08:002018-03-17T12:02:46.890-07:00Evergreen: The Beautiful Witch of Moonlight Ridge<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Evy steered Willie T. and me over to the fireplace and we sat on the ancient looking cane bottom chairs, gazing into the dancing fire. The fire sure felt good after being nearly froze to death, tromping around out on the mountain all day. I could have gone sound asleep sitting up, right there in the chair. Willie T. kicked his legs back and forth, tapping the chair rungs with his feet. “We need to get out of here and head home, you know it?” he whispered nervously.“We need to take Erskine with us and skedaddle. Thangs is gettin’ weird.” </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Evy looked at me, then at Willie T. “Wait a bit,” she said in a soft, quiet voice. “I tell you a story.” </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">Erskine made a noise behind us, and I turned around and saw that he had his clothes on and was sittin’ on the side of the bed, pulling on his brown leather work boots. When he saw me looking at him, he smiled and said, “I feel a little light headed, yet.” He stood up and ran his hands through his hair, causing it to fall into its normal uncombed arrangement. He stretched </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">his arms over his head, then laughed and said, “Now people’ll be sayin’, ‘Erskine, you act like a tree fell on you!’ ” </span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">Willie T. twisted around and glared. “Everybody’s been sayin’ that already!” he chuckled. </span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">Erskine joined us in front of the fireplace and stood behind the chair where Evy was sitting, and you could have knocked me out of my chair with a feather when he leaned over and kissed her on the cheek!</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"> “So, then! Tell us that story,” he said.</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"> Evy drew a slow deep breath, and spread her hands like she was showing us the scene where her story took place. “It snowed early, that year. Cold moon, high in d’ sky, Harvest done come, and de witchin’ season about. An’ de man come ridin’ up in the moonlight, jus’ like always. Horse hooves clatterin’ on the hard road. Horse named Beauty, and de girl he love named Bessie. Daughter of ol’ Solomon Penny, landlord of th’ stage coach stop. Man on de horse a white man, highway robber name’ Tom Weaver, come ev’ry night to give his sweetheart a kiss . . . and sometime silver coins and jewels he stole off de stage coach.” Evy paused and touched one of the ruby earrings she was wearing. “Snowflakes be fallin’ soft on the mountain, early. This time, when Tom Weaver ride up to de place, militia be waitin’ for him for the bounty on his head. Bessie, standin’ at the window, see him shot dead on de groun’. Ol’ Solomon run out de house, hold up his hands to stop ‘em from shootin’. Dey shoot him dead right beside Tom Weaver.</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><b>“Militia mens take the body of Tom Weaver away, to get they bounty money from the governor. Leave ol’ Solomon Penny there on the ground in th’ bloody snow. “ Evy sighed. “Bessie bury him herself, behin’ the stage coach stop, an’ she carryin’ Tom Weaver’s baby. Tore de ruby earrings from her ears, thowed ‘em on the bloody snow. Leff’ the stagecoach stop, move up here to de bluff where nobody dare to touch her, evermore. Talk go aroun', said Bessie a witch. Ev’rybody ‘fraid to bother her.”</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"> Evy sighed again and sat up straight in her chair, smoothing her skirt with her hands. I felt like a big empty hole had come up, all of a sudden, in my chest. “Man led the militia, Holbert Tucker. Clyde Tucker’s mean ol’ great-gran’daddy.” Willie T. and Erskine and I all looked at each other. “Huh!” Erskine huffed. Willie T. was busy wiping his cheeks on his coat sleeve. After a while, Evy continued. “Clyde Tucker ain’t no bad man. But Safina Weaver? No … she won’t forget.” Erskine looked like he was studying the situation. “Well, I’d say that was a long time ago,” he said. </span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">“Long time ago,” Evy agreed, nodding her head. “But de memory still in de blood.”</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">Excerpt from</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><i><b><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Witches-Moonlight-Ridge-Novel/dp/0991187717">The Witches of Moonlight Ridge</a></b></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><i><b>Photograph from the Hugh Mangum Collection Used with permission from David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library Duke University</b></i></span><br />
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Ramey Channellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03340802949382192661noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8876108113054329955.post-90465536506686582122017-11-23T08:17:00.000-08:002017-11-23T08:25:14.722-08:00Happy Thanksgiving from Moonlight Ridge<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
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was crowded and cozy, everything smelled right spicy, and everybody was in a
holiday mood, talking and laughing over the delicious feast.</span></span><span style="font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;">½ pound bacon, diced <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;">1 medium onion, chopped <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;">2 stalks celery, chopped <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;">2 cloves garlic <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;">1 tsp chopped parsley <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;">Black-eyed peas, cooked
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<span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;">Salt to taste (1 tsp salt
for 2 cups dried black-eyed peas) <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;">Cooked white rice <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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and celery look translucent. Drain grease. Add garlic, parsley, and cooked
black-eyed peas, simmer until peas are tender but not mushy. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;">In a large pot or bowl,
gently combine peas and cooked rice, or serve peas separately over mounds of
cooked rice. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;">Note: Before cooking
dried black-eyed peas, sort through them thoroughly for tiny pebbles or other
debris, then rinse and drain. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;">Note: Cooked ham,
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<span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif"; font-size: 8.0pt;">1/3 </span><span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;">cup butter <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;">1 ½ cups raisins <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;">Preheat oven to 450°. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 115%;">Sift together flour,
pinch of salt, sugar. Cut butter into the flour mixture. Beat egg and add to
the milk, stir into flour/sugar mixture. Add raisins. Turn onto well floured
board, knead gently, using more flour if necessary for a smooth dough. Cut with
small biscuit cutter and bake at 450° for approximately 15 minutes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;">3 cups persimmons <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;">2 cups buttermilk <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;">1 stick plus 1 tablespoon
unsalted butter <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;">1 ½ cups unbleached all
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cinnamon <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;">½ tsp nutmeg ½ tsp ginger
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<span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;">Preheat oven to 350° F.
Grease a 4 x 8 x 12 inch pan with 1 tbsp butter. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;">Puree 3 cups persimmons,
which will yield 2 cups puree. Combine puree with buttermilk. Beat stick of
butter and sugar until fluffy. Add eggs one at a time. In a large mixing bowl,
stir the puree into the butter/sugar/eggs. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;">Sift all dry ingredients
together and fold them into the persimmon mixture. Fill baking pan with
mixture, place the pan into a larger pan and fill the larger pan halfway with
warm water. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;">Bake uncovered for 1 ¼
hours or until the pudding is firm in the center and has pulled away from the
sides of the pan, and a knife inserted into the center of the pudding comes out
clean. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;">Serve hot with whipped
cream or vanilla ice cream. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 115%;">How to
puree persimmons: </span></b><span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 115%;">Remove
skins from ripe persimmons. Persimmons can be mashed through a colander, and
seeds will be removed and left in colander. If using a food processor, remove
seeds before processing.</span></div>
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Ramey Channellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03340802949382192661noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8876108113054329955.post-65016953313893810392017-10-29T11:27:00.000-07:002017-10-29T11:27:00.595-07:00Moonlight and Witches at North Shelby Library<br />
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October 24th at the North Shelby Library</div>
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On Tuesday evening I was honored to present a Moonlight Ridge program at the beautiful North Shelby Library. We had a lively discussion about magic, mysteries, childhood adventures, and Halloween happenings. It's always such a pleasure to connect with readers who find delight in Lily Claire and WillieT.'s extraordinary escapades and recall unique childhood memories of their own. </div>
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Thanks to Michelyn Reid for inviting me to North Shelby County, for the warm hospitality, and the enjoyable get-together.</div>
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The whole town's talking about those "wayward sisters" up on Moonlight Ridge! But our favorite 4th grade school teacher, a young man named Erskine Batson, gets most of the attention and adulation here at Leeds Jane Culbreth Library!<br />
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he drove the worse-for-wear Eden garbage truck" . . . is a true Renaissance Man.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">And how did he survive when the huge tree fell down on top of him during the violent wind storm on the mountain?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">You can learn all about our unconventional 4th grade teacher, and plenty of other mysteries on the mountain, in <i><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Witches-Moonlight-Ridge-Novel/dp/0991187717/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1497284416&sr=1-1&keywords=The+witches+of+moonlight+ridge">The Witches of Moonlight Ridge</a></i>.</span></span><br />
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<i>The Witches of Moonlight Ridge</i> (The Moonlight Ridge Series Volume 2) by Ramey Channell is a charmingly delightful southern tale. Autumn has arrived at Moonlight Ridge, and Lily Clair and her cousin Willie T. are excited about starting fourth grade. They are happy that their teacher is the lovable and jolly Miss Tomkins. Sadly, a week after school begins, tragedy strikes. Miss Tomkins has an accident and is unable to teach. However, Miss Tomkins's successor, Erskine Batson, the driver of the Eden garbage truck, is a fascinating replacement. Erskine is teaching them many strange subjects, such as Music Theory and the Science of Archaeology. But for Lily Claire and Willie T., not all of his lessons into the strange and mysterious stop in the classroom. In a chance meeting with Erskine at a stagecoach stop ruins, the three experience bizarre and inexplicable events that have them questioning whether the place is haunted. But what is haunting the old ruins and the woods around them, ghosts or witches?<br style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: none !important; padding: 0px;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: none !important; padding: 0px;" /><i>The Witches of Moonlight Ridge </i>is a stunningly entertaining southern fiction novel. The arcane knowledge of the mountains and the superstitions of its people are infused within the story, giving it an eerie aura that charms the reader and lulls them into believing the mysterious and inexplicable. With its spooky ambiance, it is the perfect book to curl up with and read on a windy fall night at Halloween. This delightful sequel reprises the characters from Moonlight Ridge and adds a few more eccentric and colorful individuals. All of the characters are multi-faceted and complex. Erskine Batson is a prime example, with the words of Shakespeare and Pythagoras's equations spilling from his lips during the week, and doing garbage runs for Eden on the weekends. He is my favorite character, and I enjoyed his tolerance and participation with Lily Claire and Willie T. and their escapades. This is a sensational novel that will enchant and delight readers from the ages of ten on up to a hundred!</div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="font-weight: 600;"> </span> <b>Sweet Music On Moonlight Ridge</b></i><span style="font-weight: 600;"> </span>(The Moonlight Ridge Series Volume 1) by Ramey Channell is a captivating and charming novel set in Alabama in the nineteen-fifties. Lily Claire and Willie T. are cousins; their mothers are sisters. They were born on the same day, at the same time, in the same hospital, and in the same room. Granny declared that because their mothers brawled with each other during their delivery, the two cousins were marked with a lifetime of squabbling. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"> Although they do have their skirmishes, Lily Claire and Willie T. are rarely separated and are adept at causing devilment. Performing a rain dance that ruins a perfectly sunny day, or following a treasure map they find from an unexpected source, Lily Claire and Willie T. live in a world that is simple yet complicated. There's rain and sunlight, birth and death in their world, and no matter what they did on the mountain, they did it together. Keeping their eyes out for the wolfeener, the awfullest scary booger on the mountain<br style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: none !important; padding: 0px;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: none !important; padding: 0px;" /><span style="font-weight: 600;"> </span><i style="font-weight: 600;"> Sweet Music On Moonlight Ridge</i><span style="font-weight: 600;"> </span>is a humorous and delightful tale about Lily Claire and Willie T. and their childhood escapades on Moonlight Ridge. It is an enchanting story depicting a child's perspective of her world and how she perceives the magic in the normal and the strange occurrences she and her relatives encounter. Ms. Channell captures and embodies the mountain's otherworldly essence that is hidden just beyond the veil and blends it with the love of hearth and home. Despite the fact that the lives of the characters are fraught with hardship, they confront it with courage and strength. Lily Claire and Willie T.'s exploits are entertaining and humorous, capturing the reader's imagination. This bewitching narrative reaches deep into the soul where the longing for family and community resides. This is an incredible story that brought back fond memories of my own childhood. I laughed, loved, and cried through Lily Claire's and Willie T.'s antics. It is an amazing novel and I am so glad that I had the opportunity to read it.</span><br />
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