Confessions of a Preacher’s Kid is a fictionalized memoir about growing up as a preacher’s kid in a small town in North Carolina. The book is written from the perspective of eight-year-old Tommy McManus and is set in 1954 in the town of Cramer Village on the Southbend River.

This largely autobiographical novel is about two young boys growing up in a small southern town, one the son of a white Southern Baptist minister and the other the oldest child of a black textile worker.

EDITED BY MICHAEL K. MCMAHAN

In spite of his busy life and career, when the need and opportunity to coach a local Pop Warner football team arose, Coach Earl Groves stepped up to the challenge. That experience changed his life. It certainly changed the lives of hundreds of boys who proudly played for the YBMC Little Orangemen…

The Life Section is a collection of previously published articles and columns written by popular newspaper columnist Michael K. McMahan, whose columns and articles have been published in The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Times, Winston-Salem Journal, and other newspapers. He writes a weekly column for the Gaston Gazette, the Shelby Star, and the Hendersonville Times-News.