Books

He came to Hancock County, Tennessee chasing a zinc claim staked on a rumor. The claim was worthless. What he found instead was a dead man’s cabin, a deck of hand-painted cards nobody could explain, and a place that made room for him before he’d done anything to deserve it.

1896: A Claim is his journal, kept across nearly fifty years in the real Blackwater country of East Tennessee — and the question under every page of it: what a man is worth, and who gets to decide.

Every card in The 1896 Tarot reads upright — no reversals, meaning what it shows, plain as the ground it’s set on. Curses and Blessings walks through all seventy-eight: the history behind them, the correspondences underneath them, and what each one is actually saying when it turns up in a reading.

Nobody in this deck has wings. Nobody’s a demon. The curses and the blessings both belong to people, and to the land they work — and this is the book that teaches you to read them that way.

A working handbook for building your own cigar box guitar — a fretless slider, a fretted acoustic, and electric pickup builds — with tools, wiring, setup, and troubleshooting, written the way a shop manual is written. Presented as an old handbook found at an estate sale in Indiana. The instructions are meant to be followed.