Brenda Ethridge Ferguson taught at the secondary and college levels, designed English courses for a private institution, and served as a librarian and library coordinator in public schools. She has written book reviews for university and library publications. Active in several professional organizations, Ferguson resides in central Texas.
Brenda Ethridge Ferguson taught at the secondary and college levels, designed English courses for a private institution, and served as a librarian and library coordinator in public schools. She has written book reviews for university and library publications. Active in several professional organizations, Ferguson resides in central Texas.
Kelsi Fairgate, a fourth grader and only child living on a ranch in the middle of Texas, awaits the end of the school year. When her parents bring in an orphan lamb from a pasture, her prospects for the summer look up. Kelsi and her friend, Ampara, run into some serious rattlesnake trouble one day. The lamb saves Kelsi, but then it is the girls’...
Kelsi's fifth-grade year takes unexpected turns with new friends, a mysterious egret, and surprising adventures
After a summer of adventures with her lamb Dopey and best friend Ampara, Kelsi Fairgate looks forward to fifth grade. She seems destined for disappointment from the moment she arrives at school and finds a boy named Toby in her favorite...
Bronze Sculpture of Old Yeller and Travis, in front of the M. Beven Eckert Memorial Library in Mason, Texas.
“It was a wild, lonesome place, down in a deep canyon that was bent in the shape of a horseshoe. Tall trees grew down in the canyon and leaned out over a deep hold of clear water. In the trees nested hundreds of long-shanked herons, blue ones and white ones with black wing tips…. And beneath them, down in the clear water, yard-long catfish lay on the sandy bottom, waiting to gobble up...
Fred Gipson (1908-1973) published his most famous work Old Yeller in 1956. A prolific author of short stories, fiction and non-fiction books, articles, and movie scripts, he was born in the ruggedly beautiful Texas Hill Country. It was a place he loved and could never leave for long. When, after its publication in 1956, Walt Disney bought the movie rights to Old Yeller and hired Gipson to adapt it to film, the author found himself in Hollywood writing the script....
I have a confession to make as I write this piece. I have read only one book by Larry McMurtry and that a nonfiction book titled Paradise. I cannot now find the book (a common problem for me) nor can I remember it well. I did, however, see the movie Terms of Endearment (based on his novel of the same name) replete, as I remember, with complicated mother – daughter, wife – husband, and mother – son relationships, not to mention an eccentric astronaut, Jack Nicholson, no less. I found the movie...
