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Delta Magazine - SUMMERS IN YAZOO CITY - Colorful storytelling at its best
Mississippi Magazine - April/May 2021 - Heritage & Culture
IN THIS PREQUEL to his Mississippi Top Ten Best Selling Novel, What I Learned at the 'Zoo,
set in Yazoo City, Mississippi, Dale Beasley tells the story of the devilish and charming Dallas Crabtree who saw his well-laid plans waylaid, ambushed for a greater call. One phone call took the college senior away from his carefree life of fraternity parties and sorority formals to being surrounded by the German army in the Siege of Bastogne. That one call caused Crabtree to spend a year of his life in the war and the rest of his life coming home.
“We Will Not Be Home By Christmas” is a collection of letters, postcards, and stories from Soldiers and Marines during Christmas in WWI, WWII, and the Korean War. This is a large format coffee table book.
All profits from this book go to support the national organization, Wreaths Across America.
Mississippi Top Ten Seller
What I Learned at the 'Zoo
Mississippi Top Ten Best Selling Novel for eight week.
What I Learned At The ‘Zoo reveals the younger Beasley’s fictionalized account of his 14th summer in Yazoo City — a summer that features an eccentric family and a plot to smuggle Cold War secrets from Mississippi to spies in East Germany and the forging of a lasting bond between the boy and his Great Uncle Dallas Crabtree.
