Where the Four Leaf Clover Grows

For years, the urge to write a story about some of the things that happened to him while growing up in the Appalachian Mountains of West Virginia has been tugging at Alfred E. Cisco’s heart and soul. His need to write about the pleasures, the pains, adventures, and disappointments seemed overwhelming at first, but his memory and other sources served him well as he struggled along.

Most of the events are true; in others, the people, places, and personalities are grown from a fertile imagination watered by reality. Alfred E. Cisco does not hesitate to add certain fictitious pieces to make the story more entertaining. For example, as a young boy, he was told a large, uneducated family lived on the Kentucky side of the Tug Fork River, twenty-seven miles from other families. The Puckett name is imagined, but the author embellishes what he knows with what might have happened. On the other hand, Pounding Mill really borders Tug Fork River from the mouth of Beach Creek, West Virginia.

But whether true or embellished, all of the stories have a common trait—they are all charming, entertaining accounts of a time gone by.