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About the Author:

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Bob  Chaffin was born in the Roaring  River Community of Jackson County, Tennessee during World War II, but soon moved with his family to the nearby town of Carthage; where he  spent the balance of his growing up years.  He was graduated from David Lipscomb University and Wayne  State University in Detroit, Michigan where  he earned an MBA.  Upon graduation from David Lipscomb he took a job  with General Motors' Financial staff and worked his way through varying  levels of responsibilities in a number of GM locations.  In January of  2001 he retired while  holding the position of Finance Director for the  Information Systems Division of GM and returned with his wife Janice Lafever  Chaffin to his beloved Tennessee.  Today, he lives in Lebanon, raises  Black Angus Cattle, and serves as an Elder for the Maple Hill Church of  Christ.

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Pore Folks,  Potlucks,  and Parables:                                                     Blackberry   Winter:
Remembering Life in the Upper Cumberland                                         Reflections of a Small Time Southern  Boy

ISBN: 978-1-935271-56-7
Perfectbound, 6x9. 341 Pages, $19.95

These third  and  fourth books are short story collections of the regional happenings,  remembrances of happiness, and recounting of life lessons that were learned in a family of love, a community of faith, and an era of peace and safety.  It is designed to take one back to a simpler time and touch a  cord in the reader's own history.  "I suppose it is the march toward life's  final battle that prompts me to write of the things I remember, for I fear that  one day, in fact I am assured that one day, I will no longer be able to  repeat the stories that I have loved and spent a lifetime accumulating in my  mind, that I will no longer be able to share with my children or  grandchildren the peace and tranquility of a world quickly passing into  antiquity.  And yet by these writings, I will be able, years hence, to  tell these tales to great grandchildren yet unborn and somehow by that, be able  to declare, 'Remember me, I existed, I was, I loved, I lived, I  cherished life in a world very different from your own, but in a way very much  like you.'   I hope you enjoy reading the work as much as I enjoyed  creating it."

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Ridin' The Blinds
Raising Up The Greatest Generation

2008 Edition,  Paperback, 6.14x9.21, 228 pages
ISBN:  978-0-9819172-0-7              $16.95

Like a great number of young people growing  up in the years between World War I and World War II, Robert Rogers  Chaffin's father-in-law, George Lafever, had a difficult life. He was  orphaned at a young age and took to the rails when still barely a  teenager. Through pictures, letters, a life sketch, and remembrances of  his entertaining stories, his unique life has been memorialized in this  book, which includes the great northern migration during the
nineteen-twenties and thirties as well as the greater story of the whole  Upper Cumberland Region. In the trying days and hardships of the Great Depression, George Lafever and his generation were put through a trial  by fire which refined their character as the furnace refines gold. The  pure toughness and resolve of their generation proved the salvation of  freedom and democracy in the anxiety filled days of the Second World  War.

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Pioneers, Preachers and  Patriots
The Chaffins of Roaring River

2005 Edition, 6.14x9.21, 276 pages
ISBN Complete:  0-9773179-3-5  
$16.95

To Robert  Chaffin, Roaring River will always remain the garden spot of the universe, the place that God had smiled on in a special way, the most desirable place  to inhabit this side of the promised land. In telling the stories about  this wonderful community, the author hopes that in some way it will  bring to the reader's mind the sights, sounds and stories of your own  past or will develop in you a greater appreciation of the courage and  energy of your own ancestors. The story of the author's American ancestors is much like that of many American families who entered the colonies in  the sixteen and seventeen hundreds, faced the hardships of settling a  new land, the perils of numerous wars, political unrest and social  upheaval but through it all placed their faith, family and fortune in  the hands of an unchanging God, shepherding an ever changing land. These Chaffins of Roaring River, were but links in a long line of Pioneers, Patriots and Preachers.

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