Fred Lunsford, storyteller, pastor, father, veteran, and all-around interesting gentleman, has 80 years of adventures in the mountains of Western North Carolina that he can share with anyone who has a few minutes to listen. Born the oldest of four children and reared on a little mountain farm on Vengeance Creek in Marble, Fred easily recalls the Depression days, and of hoeing corn, some of which was fed to the hogs and mules, and some of which was converted into "liquid form."
Fred has many stories relation to the Lord's Acre Plan, and effort for strengthening local churches. Participants pledged to the Lord's work the produce from an acre of land, the sale of a hog or calf, and eggs laid on Sunday. At a cattle sale, when an auctioneer would identify a cow as having been dedicated to this project, the bidding would go higher.
Stories such as this, that illustrate how the mountain people pulled together to make their society better, stronger and more productive, and some of Fred's best stories. He plans to compile these, and others, into a book, which he will call Nuggets from the Mountains.
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