The former cotton mill town of Fries rests upon the banks of the New River in southwest Virginia.  In this collection of short stories, the author calls upon his childhood reflections of the 60's to weave Christmas stories that are sure to make you laugh, make you cry, or just make you relive your own special memories of the wonderful season.  

This historical novel is based upon the true story of 5-year old Caty Sage, who dissapeared from her family's wilderness farm in 1792.  It is the story of her father's incessant quest to find her up until his death.  Discover within its pages the mystery leading to her discovery, fifty years later.   If you are a lover of Appalachian history, with it's Scot-Irish mysticism and folklore of the early 19th Century, you'll love this book.  It weaves among its pages the perplexing relationships between the colonial settler and the Indian nations.   All of this combines to make The Saga of Caty Sage a story for the ages, as if lifted from a Hollywood script.