Where There's a Will There's a Way

<p><strong><em>Where There's a Will There's a Way</em></strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p><p class=ql-align-justify><em>Ma was a crafty lady who had been taught well by her father and mother Elias Samuel Totten and Nancy Jane Bradford Totten. She learned to cook sew plow hoe pick cotton do housework and dry apples and peaches for fried pies. She worked like a man. She could plow behind a mule as well as most men. She could also pull her weight in using a crosscut saw for cutting logs and firewood for the fireplace kitchen cook stove and the big iron potbelly heating stove that heated our house.</em></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span></p><p class=ql-align-justify>In Carl J. Barger's latest book <em>Where There's a Will There's a Way</em> he writes of growing up in the foothills of the Ozark Mountains in Cleburne County Arkansas.</p><p class=ql-align-justify> </p><p class=ql-align-justify>He relates his struggles and triumphs as the ninth child in a family of eleven children born during the Great Depression to Edward and Mamie Ann Totten Barger of Higden Arkansas.</p><p class=ql-align-justify> </p><p class=ql-align-justify>Growing up in the small community of Higden population 122 he experienced poverty as well as a thirst for knowledge and understanding always dreaming of a better life.</p><p class=ql-align-justify> </p><p class=ql-align-justify>He remembers lying awake at night listening to his mother crying while she wondered where the family's next meal was coming from. His Pa would say Mamie I'm going to take care of that. Don't you worry!</p><p class=ql-align-justify> </p><p class=ql-align-justify>Barger includes the people who made a difference in his life; people who challenged him motivated him and influenced the man he became. He gives credit where credit is due.</p><p class=ql-align-justify> </p><p class=ql-align-justify><em>Where There's a Will There's a Way</em> was written to inspire others who are struggling not knowing what the future holds for them.</p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>About the Author:</strong></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span></p><p class=ql-align-justify>Carl J. Barger grew up in the Ozark Mountains of Cleburne County Arkansas. He spent thirty-eight years working in the public schools of Arkansas thirty-three as a superintendent of schools.</p><p class=ql-align-justify> </p><p class=ql-align-justify>Barger is the author of six other books: <em>Swords and Plowshares; Mamie: An Ozark Mountain Girl of Courage; Dark Clouds Over Alabama; Blue Skies of El Dorado: A Sequel to Dark Clouds Over Alabama; Arkansas Hillbilly; a</em>nd <em>Sons Of War. </em>He is also the author of two historical books on Cleburne County Arkansas <em>Cleburne County and Its People Vol 1 and 2</em>.</p><p class=ql-align-justify> </p><p class=ql-align-justify>He makes his home in Conway Arkansas.</p><p><br></p>