The Generation That Saved America

History Romance & Destiny. The Third Novel in the Trilogy. Dr. John Burel's great-grandson John Harrison was a toddler when his family pioneered from South Carolina to Mississippi. As a youngster he proudly helped his family bellwether the Civil War and rebirth of the New South. By the early 1900s he was a prosperous farmer and landowner. Time passed quickly and too soon he was an old man. Join Grandpa and feel the biting north wind as he shuffled onto the front porch cupped his hands around his mouth and shouted It's hog-killing day! Watch the bustling families rush toward the big house to slaughter enough hogs to carry them through the winter. Summer finally arrived and brought old-time gospel singing and preaching to their country church on the hill. Mama rose early on Sunday morning and filled her basket with fried chicken biscuits baked sweet potatoes and fried apple pies. After preaching there was going to be another dinner-on-the-ground. Everyone was excited. Without a doubt those were the good years.. But all that changed. Walk down the dismal road with the Burrell family as they helplessly watched the reckless Roaring Twenties and Great Depression bring a flourishing economy and their comfortable lifestyle to a grinding halt. Feel Grandpa's pain and humiliation when the bank called in his Deed-of-Trust and he was forced to sell his last 640-acre farm and home for a few dollars. Sit for awhile and listen to his grandson Cecil Allen Burrell The Man Himself as his thought-provoking stories detail how they all survived those disastrous years. With their eyes on the future John Harrison's children and grandchildren navigated their way back into prosperity and eventually reclaimed their part of the American dream & the same dream brought to America by their Great3-Grandfather Dr. Jean-Baptiste Elzear Burel in 1778.