Edward T. Frye

Edward T. Frye

Ed Frye has been writing all his adult life. Ticket To Oregon is his second novel, following his 2011 autobiographically-based, Fools and Children. Ed has also authored three textbooks used in colleges and high schools and more than two dozen articles published in numerous educational journals and popular magazines. Dr. Edward T. Frye is a nationally known writer and speaker.For the last two decades he has worked in 36 states, addressing more than 77,000 program participants. Prior to this work, Ed served as a school administrator in three Pennsylvania school districts for most of his 32 years in public education. His career titles include Executive Director, Assistant Superintendent, Coordinator of English and Federal Programs, and Director of Community Relations. Dr. Frye has been a part-time professor in two universities. A native Pennsylvanian, Ed resides in Mechanicsburg, PA with his wife of fifty-five years, near his two daughters, and three grandchildren. Ed is an avid racquetball player and a licensed pilot, flying a Cessna Cardinal for years. Dr. Frye holds degrees from Lock Haven University, Temple University, and Penn State. His professional website offers a complete resume, a listing of his publications, photos, and client responses: www.fryedock.org.

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    Fools and Children

    Enjoy a romp through the 1950s with two small town boys hell-bent on action and adventure. Fools and Children is an unblinking and touching collection of memorable childhood escapades as it chronicles the outlandish and often dangerous exploits of these creative but naïve lads. Ed Frye and Herb Bierly, with their rogues’ gallery of friends, create havoc and consternation for town residents when they flood a section of town, loose a horse on the streets, and plan a bank robbery. Caves, creeks, hills, and farms are scenes of perilous undertakings.

    Millheim provides their earliest up close and personal experiences with death, as well as poignant lessons for life. Along the way, they experiment with guns, horses, the sins of the world, and girls. Frye and Bierly skip none of the rites of passage, but almost always with a twist. Both learn early that the difference between hero and victim is often too close to call.

    Filled with leisurely-told tales, colorful characters, cultural references to the Golden ’50s, and humor, Fools and Children takes Baby Boomers back to their own youthful years. With the freedoms available to these young adventurers in a simpler time and place, their zeal for life is reflective of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn.

    What would a reader expect in a collection of leisurely-told tales? Danger? Humor? Sex? Insight? Naiveté? Creativity? Stupidity? Fools and Children provides them all.

    $14.99
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    Ticket to Oregon

    Three generations of the Ticket family have stood behind their bar in the fictional small town of Cordell, Oregon, serving the rich and poor, loggers and lumbermen, dreamers and drifters, revelers and mourners. Owen Ticket, the current proprietor, hasn’t spent much time outside of this town created by two entrepreneurs. But he has seen and heard about it all.

    When Owen and an out-of-towner engage in a story-telling match, Owen pours forth tale after engaging tale, garnishing most with his own perceptive and insight into human nature and condition. Ticket’s Bar has been through it all – the booms and bubbles and heartaches of the 1900s with Depression, Prohibition, two war wars, the Korea conflict, the Vietnam debacle, and the plight of the American wood industry.

    Join Owen as he opens the tap and draws a pitcher full of laughter and tears, offering a century’s worth of entertainment from his person and time inter-connected stories. The reader meets a pokerplaying cheat, the love-anguished Constanze Osterhagen, Paws The Wonder Dog, Stonekicker Bob, the Frenchman, the local grave digger, Owen’s father and grandfather, and Anne Oakley herself.

    All of this and more in the shadow of Mt. Hood, the high plains, and the majestic but treacherous Deschutes River. So, pull up a stool, park your heels on the brass foot rail and settle in for the wonderful story-telling skills of Owen Ticket.

    $13.99