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...
Texas State University in San Marcos owns an interesting item, for an institution of higher learning, that is. It is an old, maple canoe paddle and is highly valued there. “The paddle, part of the university’s Wittliff Collections of papers and artifacts from Southwestern literature, was used by John Graves on a trip down the Brazos River in 1957. The book that resulted from that trip, Goodbye to a River, established Mr. Graves a giant in Texas letters and one of the nation’s more elegant...
“April and May can be magnificent with birdsong and wildflowers and greenery gone crazy, and if good rains come in late August or September, as they often do, early fall can be a sort of verdant second spring before frosts turn red and blue and yellow and crisp.”
John Graves, From a Limestone Ledge
John Graves’ three books Goodbye to a River, Hard Scrabble, and From A Limestone Ledge brought him tremendous respect as a writer of nonfiction as well as Texas, national, and international awards...
For a woman whose famed writing career took her to live in such places as Chicago, New York, Denver, Mexico, and much of Europe, and who rubbed elbows with the likes of Ezra Pound, Hart Crane, Frida Kahlo, Eudora Welty, Carson McCullers, and Robert Penn Warren, it is a shock to find Katherine Anne Porter’s final resting place is a country cemetery in the middle of Texas. Tiny Indian Creek Cemetery is found in the wide-open spaces where country roads wind their way for miles without...