Kentucky history and geography are just the beginning of the interesting information in this book. The story follows Reverend USGrant Perkins to Europe, the Middle East and finally Ohio (our home state). The book is signed by author Paul M Perkins, USGrant Perkins' son and is filled with photos from the family collection.
Preface quote:
"The stories of the ordinary people are not often told...We only see ordinary people in glimpses. In a local history...in a soldier's fragment about an old battle...the crumbling pages of a diary...
My father, Ulysses S. Grant Perkins (1873-1936)looked down on most men from the top of a six foot three inch Kentucky mountain oak frame. He was not born to much promise or hope in a two-room log house in Whitley County, Kentucky. But his story--orphan, itinerant farm hand, a soldier around the Indian reservations in the West, mountain college, cavalry captain in the Spanish War in 1898, seminary student, traveler to Europe and Palestine in 1905, and Methodist minister---is interesting and worth telling."
And I would conclude, worth reading.
Preface quote:
"The stories of the ordinary people are not often told...We only see ordinary people in glimpses. In a local history...in a soldier's fragment about an old battle...the crumbling pages of a diary...
My father, Ulysses S. Grant Perkins (1873-1936)looked down on most men from the top of a six foot three inch Kentucky mountain oak frame. He was not born to much promise or hope in a two-room log house in Whitley County, Kentucky. But his story--orphan, itinerant farm hand, a soldier around the Indian reservations in the West, mountain college, cavalry captain in the Spanish War in 1898, seminary student, traveler to Europe and Palestine in 1905, and Methodist minister---is interesting and worth telling."
And I would conclude, worth reading.
