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Book Title: An Echo of Ashes
Author: Ron Allen Ames
Publication Date: March 25, 2025
Publisher: Historium Press
Pages: 247
Genre: Historical Fiction based on a true story
An Echo of Ashes is a story lost to time, then found again in century-old letters that lay in a tattered box. Based on actual events taken from the pages, this story tells of when the Great War and the Spanish Influenza forever altered the lives of millions, including a family of subsistence farmers who also worked the oil fields of Pennsylvania.
Ella and Almon make their home in the backcountry. Almon and his sons work in the oil fields, just as their forefathers before them. As war and influenza break out, the parents seek to shield their family from the impending perils.
Earl, the eldest son, is a gifted trombone and piano player. He is captivated by Lucile Lake, a girl from a higher social status. All he has to win her heart are his music and his words as the military draft looms ever closer. Jack, a friend as close as a brother, faces the horrors of war at the Western Front. Albert's free spirit creates chaos as he searches for direction. Arthur's patriotism leads him to the Mexican border. Young Russell must suppress his fear to save a life, while Little Clara remains protected from the distress.
World War One and the Spanish Influenza Pandemic are most often documented separately, yet they intersected in 1918. For those who endured sacrifice and loss during this time, the sharp echo of tragedy carried through the ashes of what once was, likely dulled but never vanished from their minds. This is just one of countless stories from such a perilous chapter in American history.
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Ron Allen Ames is a history enthusiast who attributes his 46 years of life experience as a hands-on business co-owner, for giving him insight into human nature, a benefit when portraying the lives of others. The information he received, dating from 1914 to 1919, is what prompted Ames to bring this history to light in An Echo of Ashes.
Ames lives with his wife Cathy in Pennsylvania. They have two grown sons.
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Excerpt 4:
My dearest
Lucile,
I have
wrestled for days over what to write to you. I must admit that I had previously
given up—and then I saw you again. I know your world is different from mine,
leaving me nothing to offer other than words of what I see, what I know, and
what I feel.
As the
raindrops fall, they rush to the streams. And, from the moment we met, you
filled my mind like streams fill the rivers. Yet, it is more than your beauty.
You unlock, in me, a place beyond the heart.
When you
walk by, I follow your every move. My hope is that you glance my way with those
eyes that flash like the lightning of a summer storm, yet reveal the promise of
a blue sky, tomorrow.
The fields
of wheat gently wave like your flaxen hair in the breeze and your voice
whispers to me on the wind.
This
vision I hold has led me to the edge of a dream. If I step in . . . are you
there?
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