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According to the Author

“The Tavern on Old Log Cabin Road” is a series of narrative poems spanning 240 years, from 1777 to 2025, when one family owned The Tavern. The place is fictional, as are the people.

The book is based on actual places in Randolph County, North Carolina, following the times and the geography of the county, with its streams, roads, history, and townships. While an actual Old Log Cabin Road exists to this day, the actual location of The Tavern is a bit south of there, just off what is now called NC RT 22 in between Coleridge and Bennett. This corner of the road is where Jimmy Cox Road intersects Rt 42/22, adjacent to Flat Creek. The old chimney that stands just to the south of the intersection of these two roads is the inspiration for all the poems in this book.

This writer was on his way to a week-long residency at Weymouth Center for the Arts & Humanities in Southern Pines, North Carolina. In January of 2017, the snow was just starting to come down when he passed by the old chimney.  

What remains of The Tavern is only the double, two-story hearth, and the foundation stones showing the enormous size of the place, a depression that was once the cold house, remains of a separate set of timbers that might have been an adjacent nice-sized old home, and some barn areas with rotten iron posts and fence remnants.

The chapter order carries from 1777 to the modern day, and as such is chronological. In each chapter, a family member tells the tales of an earlier family member to keep the memories alive.

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