1993, Bantam Audio - Cassette
This tape includes more stories from the books
The End of the Road and The Big Garage on Clear Shot

 

 

 

 

 

 

Wherever we are, time has a way of revealing what we keep hidden. And it’s no different at the End of the Road, where even the most cantankerous have their tender secrets and poignant passions. Here people reach out to touch each other in surprising ways, and old fools, for all their wintry bluster, have the undeniable bloom of springtime in their hearts.

 

Excerpt from A Night in the Pass

People sometimes have the funniest ways of getting together. We’re either shy, disagreeable, suspicious, or unworthy, and it often takes something bigger than ourselves to get to know each other. Bad weather has probably introduced more people to one another than anything else in this part of the world, at least that’s how Argus Winslow and Fanny Olmstead came to know each other.

Argus and Fanny have lived in this same little town for years. Argus, of course, was one of the first ones here, homesteading out Far Road way over forty years ago.

Fanny Olmstead has been here about fifteen years, arriving as the young bride of Pastor Frank Olmstead. Pastor Frank came to the End of the Road to escape the liberalism he felt was infecting the Baptist faith and formed The First and Last Baptist Church.

Fanny has never displayed any personality that Argus could notice and seemed to busy herself mostly with community booster activities, fussing over her first-class ass of a husband, and generally lurking about looking either embarrassed or offended, depending on who she was looking at….

 

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