Along Spain Creek: Volume 2 - Paperback

by Ralph Lowell Coleman Jr (Author)

Small town humor, pathos, mystery, people, places and things are all to be found in this second volume of stories, experiences, tall tales, and historical notes spun out of the environs of a group of rural communities which are located in central Ohio, situated near an insignificant, meandering stream called Spain Creek. This is book two in a trilogy.

Author Biography

Ralph Lowell Coleman, Jr., was born in North Lewisburg, Ohio, on a sunny but frigid day in February, 1945, the son of Ralph Lowell and Kathleen Impson Coleman. He was educated in the local school system, and graduated with the Triad High School Class of 1963. He attended Bowling Green State University (Ohio) 1963-1969. He later enlisted in the United States Army, and served until 1993 as an infantryman non-commissioned officer. Following his military career, he attended Weber State University (Utah) and became an information systems and technology teacher at two private schools in Utah. He is a metastatic melanoma cancer survivor, cancer-free since 2005. He is a member of the American Legion, the Disabled American Veterans, and the Veterans of Foreign Wars. Divorced, he is the father of four adult sons and four adult daughters, and grandfather to eleven grandsons and four granddaughters. A published poet, he resides in Ogden, Utah, with his companion Spazz the Wander dog.