From a Cocoon of Love and Poverty

About the Book

This book describes Thad Box’s four-part journey from sharecropping through a career as aspiring rancher, educator, resource ecologist and environmentalist. The Cocoon of Love and Poverty, explores the influence of family, traditions, the Great Depression and rocky Texas hills on his basic values. Breaking from the Cocoon, discusses the broadening world opened by military service and college education. Spreading My Wings, examines development of philosophies of learning and service. Flying Like a Butterfly, demonstrates application of those philosophies. Written primarily for family, this gripping memoir should be read by anyone concerned with the environment and social justice.

About the Author

THAD BOX writes to encourage good land use, environmental awareness and social justice. In past lives he has been a rancher, laborer, soldier, radio station manager, adobe mason, town trustee, research scientist, professor, and dean. He shares his ecological training and experience in commentaries and poems that appear widely in newspapers, magazines and on radio. He lives in and writes from the mountain valley that surrounds Logan, Utah. ALAN HUESTIS is a well known landscape photographer whose work takes him around the world. He owns Studio 404 Photography and Fast Focus Productions, photography and video production studios in Logan, Utah. He is published in many national and international magazines. A California surfer, Alan came to Utah to attend Utah State University. He fell in love with the beauty of northern Utah’s never ending offerings of landscape opportunities and never went home. His work can be seen at www.studio404photography.com Other Xlibris Books by Thad Box Me’N’Alvin--Growing Up in the Great Depression, narrative poems From a Cocoon of Love and Poverty--A Memoir Bud’s Adobe Dog House--children’s picture book with Marie Dwyer