Tom Perry's Laurel Hill Publishing LLC

10/24/2024

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09/30/2024

Tom Perry's Laurel Hill Publishing is pleased to announce the fifth book by Juanita H. Turner.

Choosing Life’s Harder Path is a unique, true, love story that tells how two young people find friendship and then a deep love for each other. They struggle against all odds to fulfill their dreams of finishing college while growing in their faith. Their adventures along the way are challenging, fascinating, and heartfelt filling. The setting is in 1957-1961, when colleges were mostly for affluent people.

The 300 page book is available on Amazon for $19.99

Choosing Life’s Harder Path: A True Story of Love, Faith, & Fulfilling Dreams

09/17/2024

HISTORY TALK AND BOOK RELEASE SEPTEMBER 29 AT 2 PM.
TOM TALKS HISTORY
J. E.B STUART AND HIS BROTHERS IN THE CIVIL WAR
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 29 AT 2 PM
ARARAT RURITAN CLUB,
4711 ARARAT HIGHWAY, ARARAT, VIRGINIA
Historian Tom Perry will discuss the lives of William Alexander Stuart, John Dabney Stuart, and James Ewell Brown “Jeb” Stuart, all born at Laurel Hill, Stuart’s Birthplace, in Ararat, Virginia, and discuss their careers during the War Between The States. William Alexander Stuart ran the saltworks in Saltville, Virginia, one of the two places that the Confederate States of America had for the vital natural resource. John Dabney Stuart was a doctor in the 54th Virginia Infantry in the Army of Tennessee. James Ewell Brown “Jeb” Stuart rose to the rank of Major General and commanded all of the cavalry in Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia.
This is a fundraiser for the Perry Family Scholarship.
Admission is free. Donations for the scholarship are accepted.
Sponsored by the Ararat Ruritan Club.
Contact Tom Perry at [email protected] or 276-692-5300 for more information.
The Perry Family Scholarship: Betty, Erie, and the Student Essays will be released the same day as the talk.
Author and Historian Thomas D. Perry started the Perry Family Scholarship in 2021 when his parents died within two months of each other. Since then, eight students from Patrick County High School in Stuart, Virginia, have received $500 each. This book is divided into three parts. In Part One Perry writes about his mother, Betty Jane Hobbs Perry, who gave Tom his love of books and history. In Part Two Perry writes about his father, Erie Meredith Perry, an educator for thirty years in Patrick County. In Part Three the student recipients write a 1,000 word essay about the topic of their choosing from the Civil War in Virginia to the Holocaust. Recipients are required to write an essay to be considered for the scholarship. Funds from this book will go to the Perry Family Scholarship.
Scholarship recipients and their essays include:
The Renaissance by Whitley Manns
Transportation by Sydney Presa
N**i Leadership by Laurel Puckett
The Holocaust was mass murder by Macy Hall
Daniel Boone by Cole Snyder
An Excursion to the White Sulphur Springs by James Caudill
The History of Religion in the Middle Ages by Irene Smith
The Civil War and Virginia’s Role In It by Nate Large
The 300 page book is available on Amazon for $19.99
https://www.amazon.com/Perry-Family-Scholarship-Student-Essays/dp/B0DG8G2FNJ

08/26/2024

https://www.amazon.com/Headed-Bloody-Bones-Thomas-Perry/dp/B09HFWZF6X

Tom Perry tells the story of Raw Headed Bloody Bones, the fictional monster he heard about growing up near Lynch Hollow in Ararat, Patrick County, Virginia.

08/26/2024

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0DCSXXV64

Love from the Front…and Beyond: The Autobiography of William Robert Wiebmer is a story about how a man’s devotion to his country and his family builds a foundation of a life story that should be shared with future generations. When it is told through his own words, it carries meaning about cheri...

08/26/2024

Coming for Halloween, Ahart Ridge: The Legend of Granny Scott.

Following in the footsteps of my previous book Raw Headed Bloody Bones from a story Gray Guynn told us as kids, this book tells the story of the WITCH of Ahart Ridge, a folktale told and written in the Patrick County Heritage Books.