Mountain Blossoms

About the Book

This book is about a loving and warm family who made their home in the area of Tumbling Creek, Virginia in the early 1900s. It brings to life an era long ago, when there was time for porch sitting and visiting with neighbors.  When molasses making and taffy pulling parties were the social functions.

Ben Jensen was very strict in his ways.  He was compassionate toward his family, especially his lovely daughters, Katie and Dolly.  Mammy Belle and Daddy Jensen raised their children in the ways of the Lord, with church attendance a priority in their lives.

One spring day while picking strawberries in the meadow below their home, Katie and Dolly Jensen had their first glimpse of the two brothers, Seth and Tom Hankins, who were fishing in the creek nearby. They didn't know that this day they had come face to face with their destiny.  Three years passed, with only vague memories of the two brothers. 

 Life continued on Tumbling Creek, and Katie and Dolly grew into beautiful young ladies.  They often wondered what became of the two brothers they had seen fishing  on that long ago spring day.  

Mammy Belle was shopping at the local general store, and she heard the news that the two brothers had returned from their three year journey across Clinch mountain where they had been employed on a cattle farm. Katie and Dolly could hardly contain their excitement.   Soon romance blossomed, and life was never the same again.

Follow Katie and Dolly as they face great challenges while maturing iinto womanhood.  Rejoice with them when they find true love, and cry with them when tragedy strikes in the lives of each.     

This is a work of fiction with historical facts added in certain circumstances.

By:  Violet June Richardson

About the Author

Violet June Richardson was raised in the Tumbling Creek area in Virginia near the town of Saltville.  The creek and the green mountians surrounding the family home, inspired her to write short stories and articles about living a simple country life and the enjoyment it brought.  Her love of writing as a young child gave her the courage to write Mountain Blossoms.

After she graduated from high school, the family moved to Indiana.  Richardson took a position at a local utility company that stretched into a thirty year career.  She continued her education attending evening classes at a local business college.  After receiving her degree, she taught shorthand and dictation for several years in evening school, and private tutoring in her home.

Richardson lives on a farm in Indiana with her husband where she enjoys  gardening, raising beautiful flowers, and having their two sons and grandchildren living nearby.  One of her hobbies is painting rural scenes of old barns.  Although she is considered a Hoosier, she still maintains her southern drawl, and her passion for writing.

She enjoys writing articles for her hometown newspaper in Virginia, sharing her memoirs and early life as a child  where she grew up.