H Wayne Easter

Wayne Easter was born in a one-room log cabin in northwest North Carolina, as he tells it, "At the Foot of the Blue in '32". His parents began married life as sharecroppers, built their own log cabin on their own small farm in 1936, but continued sharecropping until 1945, when they bought a neighbor's farm. When electricity and an automobile came over the hills in 1948, they finally "joined a twentieth century already half gone." Mr Easter's books are "somewhat home-grown," as he tells it it, and are about "running wild in the backwoods, broke and barefooted." He graduated from high school in 1950, "at the bottom of a class of thirteen." He has been a factory worker, soldier, volunteer fireman, attended two years of electronics school, taught electronics for Sears, owned his own electronics sales and service business, and is now retired after fifty plus years of selling and repairing home electronics for himself and other companies. He and his wife Helen live in Mt Airy, North Carolina and his hobbies are reading, writing, sketching, photography, and watching the passing parade. One final quote, "There is not enough hours in the day."