Sherry Laymon, Author

September 15, 2014 • 6:05 pm 1

Sherry Laymon discusses her latest book, CHEROKEE BLUE, on KUAF, Fayetteville

http://kuaf.com/post/after-five-years-teacher-turned-writer-publishes-cherokee-blue

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CHEROKEE BLUE is the biography of Blue Hothouse, one of the diminishing number of full-blood Cherokee Indians whose ancestors walked the Trail of Tears from Cherokee, North Carolina to Oklahoma during the winter of 1838-39. Blue’s story is one of trials, heartache, and multiple betrayals by the United States government. The narrative, told from the Cherokee perspective, depicts Blue’s difficulty throughout his life as he struggled to conform to and abide by “white man’s laws.” From his childhood until his adulthood, he has encountered racism, discrimination, mistreatment, hardship, and extreme poverty; yet, his faith in Christ has guided him to overcome his struggles and focus upon helping other Native Americans who are less fortunate and minister the gospel in the process.

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Sherry Laymon, AUTHOR

Email - sherry@sherrylaymon.com 501-276-8100

Sherry Laymon is a native Arkansan whose books and articles focus on Arkansas, Southern, and American history. She earned a doctorate degree from Arkansas State University in 2005. Her dissertation, PFEIFFER COUNTRY: THE TENANT FARMS AND BUSINESS ACTIVITIES OF PAUL PFEIFFER IN CLAY COUNTY, ARKANSAS 1902-1954, was published by Butler Center Books, (Little Rock) in April 2009. Her articles, JOHN MCCLELLAN AND THE ARKANSAS RIVER NAVIGATION PROJECT and ARKANSAS'S DARK AGES: THE STRUGGLE TO ELECTRIFY ARKANSAS won the Arkansas Historical Association's Violet Gingles Award in 2010 and 2011, respectively. She has other works in the publication process.

PFEIFFER COUNTRY

Pfeiffer Country is a non-fiction examination of a southern Twentieth Century tenant farming operation in which the farmers actually prospered. Contrary to most tenant farm operators in the Mississippi Delta, Paul Pfeiffer--Ernest Hemingway's father-in-law, ran a profitable tenant system during the most trying years of the Depression. Laymon's research and interviews with former Pfeiffer tenants provide many rich and refreshing details about a successful counter-model farming operation that greatlycontrasted similar systems in the Mississippi Delta.

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