{"product_id":"camptown-races-and-other-tales-from-camptown-kentucky-paperback","title":"Camptown Races: And other tales from Camptown, Kentucky - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eKenn Grimes\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1847, at the Tipsy Toad Saloon in Camptown, \u003cbr\u003e Kentucky, Will Van Pelt shined the shoes of\u003cbr\u003e Abraham Lincoln and received for his efforts an\u003cbr\u003e IOU. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Over the next 150 years, the residents of this\u003cbr\u003e fictional, yet familiar Midwest area, encounter\u003cbr\u003e other famous people such as Stephen Foster\u003cbr\u003e and John L. Sullivan. But those encounters\u003cbr\u003e share the stage with entanglements of smalltown\u003cbr\u003e commonfolk: George Freeman, a young slave\u003cbr\u003e boy who won his freedom riding a bobtailed\u003cbr\u003e nag named Lucy to victory in a horse race;\u003cbr\u003e \"Woolly\" Wanda Listerman, the bearded lady;\u003cbr\u003e Merle Goodman, a Baptist preacher who let\u003cbr\u003e his desire for a young girl get the best of him;\u003cbr\u003e and Paul Parmele, whose family experienced\u003cbr\u003e a miracle when angels appeared in their\u003cbr\u003e Christmas tree. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Camptown Races presents the presidential\u003cbr\u003e and the provincial, the renowned and the\u003cbr\u003e rustic, the champs and the churls, with the\u003cbr\u003e same unflinching honesty and humor. The\u003cbr\u003e sum of the sketches adds up to a portrait\u003cbr\u003e of the character of America's heartland and\u003cbr\u003e of our human heart.\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 232\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.53 x 8 x 5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 04, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48709277942009,"sku":"9780986002045","price":20.25,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/7DONTea63L9780986002045.webp?v=1784923555","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/camptown-races-and-other-tales-from-camptown-kentucky-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}