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The Cunningham family legacy to the growing city of Memphis starts with a pair of sons who turn out to become pillars of the community. Plus, like their mother Angie who is married to Val Dimand for almost four decades, the vital, strong, and passionate women who fall in love with the Cunningham men all provide support, guidance, and comfort while their generations march forward. The majestic Cunningham love story mirrors the varied history of the beautiful Bluff City – Memphis.
The story is bold, and bawdy. Lust seems to fuel the Cunninghams’ story and creates a spicy, yet gripping account of courtships and marriages marked by love, tragedy and redemption over the course of almost a hundred years. Enjoy meeting this wonderful family and city while you watch for The Cunninghams Two, coming very soon!!
The story of the Cunningham family is inexorably woven in and out of the varied, poignant, and often topsy-turvy history of the lovely city situated high on the bluffs overlooking the Mississippi River.
Come and be enthralled by this slice of Americana and experience action, passion, and excitement along the way – with the Cunninghams!
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The final journey home to Memphis in 1926 came for Oskar Cunningham a little after his ninety-first birthday. From a laughing little toddler, who was content to have his big brother, Bobby, splash him incessantly in the creek flowing by their Texas prairie cabin, he became a fine Memphis lad who excelled in all his school subjects, including Latin. He graduated from college as the first in his family to do so, and he successfully read for, and practiced law. This fine family leader, who had shepherded his clan to safety in Arkansas away from yellow fever, was dead. The sawmill he had begun, out of an interest formed when he was a little boy, was still earning a major income for his family, and he had sat on the bench as county judge for almost twenty years.
By any measure, it had been a full life, well lived.
Robert W. Cunningham, their father, lay somewhere beneath the courtyard soil of the crumbling old Texas mission known as the Alamo, and his beloved bride, Angie, lay beneath the Arkansas soil at the Jonesboro homestead. Their two wonderful sons now lay side by side at last, interred there in Memphis, along with their devoted stepfather, Val Dimand. Oskar was at last reunited with his lost little girl, Rose Ellen, there in that beautiful setting at Woodlawn.
The gravity of the continuity thus displayed by the interment of their father was not lost on Bob, Chet, or Melvin Cunningham as they stood together at the end of the ceremony. And, like the prior generation of Cunninghams thus finished, their own generation was destined to go their individual ways, meeting up when they could and being apart when they must.
A whole new and quite varied chapter in the Cunningham family story would shortly begin to unfold.
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HOP: Tracker On the Trail of Life
Adult and young adult readers who want a good story of overcoming adversity and getting the best out of a simple life will thoroughly enjoy HOP.
Though at first glance it might seem male-oriented, HOP appeals to female readers as well – as a testament to strong marriage – a theme in all my books, as I’ve been married almost 50 years.
While not a fast-paced thriller, like my Cunninghams novels, HOP has action segments which are thrilling in their own right, as well as poignant moments and insights into complicated family life for a very simple man.
Sometimes not in touch with circumstance or events around him, “Hop” nevertheless has to cope with them, even though he is hampered by his lack of education and menial employment. His quiet story of success I believe will appeal to a broad segment of society.
Come to know “Hop” as I did – as my beloved father.
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