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Where Dreams Die Hard: A Small American Town and Its Six-Man Football Team
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Where Dreams Die Hard: A Small American Town and Its Six-Man Football Team in Franklin, TN
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Down Farm Road 308, an hour's drive south of Dallas, amidst sprawling fields of cotton lies a small communityPenelope, Texas (population 211). Here, where the only thriving businesses are the granary and the post office, unless you count the soft-drink machine in front of the fire station, two-time Edgar Award-winning writer Carlton Stowers discovered a special town that came together, not only to support their six-man highschool football teamthe Penelope Wolverinesthrough thick and a lot of thin, but also, and more importantly, each other.
Where Dreams Die Hard
is a warm and revealing portrait of the American heartlandand of one small town's love affair with the team that unites it. "Through his unforgettable depiction of innocence, goodness, loyalty, and friendship...Carlton Stowers gives us a moving portrait of a community that, in the words of one of the Penelope faithful, is like 'stepping into a Norman Rockwell painting.'" (Billie Letts, author of
Where the Heart Is
) "High school football in Texas is both sport and religion, and Stowers brilliantly brings this to light in Where Dreams Die Hard." (Jim Dent, author of
The Junction Boys
)
Where Dreams Die Hard
is a warm and revealing portrait of the American heartlandand of one small town's love affair with the team that unites it. "Through his unforgettable depiction of innocence, goodness, loyalty, and friendship...Carlton Stowers gives us a moving portrait of a community that, in the words of one of the Penelope faithful, is like 'stepping into a Norman Rockwell painting.'" (Billie Letts, author of
Where the Heart Is
) "High school football in Texas is both sport and religion, and Stowers brilliantly brings this to light in Where Dreams Die Hard." (Jim Dent, author of
The Junction Boys
)
Down Farm Road 308, an hour's drive south of Dallas, amidst sprawling fields of cotton lies a small communityPenelope, Texas (population 211). Here, where the only thriving businesses are the granary and the post office, unless you count the soft-drink machine in front of the fire station, two-time Edgar Award-winning writer Carlton Stowers discovered a special town that came together, not only to support their six-man highschool football teamthe Penelope Wolverinesthrough thick and a lot of thin, but also, and more importantly, each other.
Where Dreams Die Hard
is a warm and revealing portrait of the American heartlandand of one small town's love affair with the team that unites it. "Through his unforgettable depiction of innocence, goodness, loyalty, and friendship...Carlton Stowers gives us a moving portrait of a community that, in the words of one of the Penelope faithful, is like 'stepping into a Norman Rockwell painting.'" (Billie Letts, author of
Where the Heart Is
) "High school football in Texas is both sport and religion, and Stowers brilliantly brings this to light in Where Dreams Die Hard." (Jim Dent, author of
The Junction Boys
)
Where Dreams Die Hard
is a warm and revealing portrait of the American heartlandand of one small town's love affair with the team that unites it. "Through his unforgettable depiction of innocence, goodness, loyalty, and friendship...Carlton Stowers gives us a moving portrait of a community that, in the words of one of the Penelope faithful, is like 'stepping into a Norman Rockwell painting.'" (Billie Letts, author of
Where the Heart Is
) "High school football in Texas is both sport and religion, and Stowers brilliantly brings this to light in Where Dreams Die Hard." (Jim Dent, author of
The Junction Boys
)
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