SANDBARS, SANDLOTS, AND CITY STREETS

About the Book

Sandbars, Sandlots, and City Streets; takes its title from some of the powerful influences that shaped and continue to shape our(mine and Katherine's) lives:

Sandbars (The Eastern Shore of Virginia and its environs)...where Katherine was born and lived the first twelve years of her life; where her brother was born; where I met the woman ith whom I have spent the last twenty-six years; and where, as a school teacher (father and husband), I found both personal and professional fulfillment.

Sandlots (Baseball)...my first love (and close to the top of Katherine's loves). We write about the fields upon which we played; players we met, ballparks in which we sat; our respect for the Game's history; and how a Southern family tried, unsuccessfully, to save baseball's greatest shrine,

I grew up in an era when the Game looked, felt, and was played very differently.

City Streets (Richmond and our Ancestry)...for a long time, Richmond stayed unchanged and very Southern. The town my grandparents, parents, and I knew, is rapidly slipping away.

This part of the Book alsofocuses on four very Southern women, all of whom had, and continue to have, a tremendous impact on me, and through me, on Katherine and her brother, Tom.

Elon (Etc.)...Katherine attends Elon University and will graduate in 2014.I graduated in 1980 (when it was Elon College).Elon, along withsome "random writings," make-up the final section of the Book.

We hope you find it a good "read."

About the Author

C Growing Up in the Old South (1957) hris Jones is a Richmond native. He received his Bachelor of Arts’ degree from Elon College (1980) where he majored in English with double minors in Religion and History. He earned his Master of Education degree from Virginia Commonwealth University in 1987. He taught high school Literature (American, English, and Dramatic) for almost twenty-fi ve years; fi fteen of those at Nandua High School on Virginia’s Eastern Shore. He retired in 2005 and lives with his family in Midlothian, Virginia. Katherine Jones was born and raised in Accomack County on Virginia’s Eastern Shore. She moved with her family, to Midlothian, in 2002. Following in her Dad’s footsteps, she attends Elon University, where she will graduate in 2014 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts’ degree (with a major in Acting). Sandbars, Sandlots, and City Streets is her fi rst collaboration with her Dad (she came up with the title). In high school, she was a member of the National Art Honor Society and was Vice- President of the Thespian Society.