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The creek is clear again, almost green, like it might have been all those years before the coal companies came. New leaves dance softly in gentle breezes. Yellow wild-flowers on long stems surrounded by luxurious leaves round as teacups raise their colors towards blue sky in praise and homage to their plant ancestors of yesteryears. But within the hearts and minds of many, it remains as black and muddy as that dreadful morning over thirty years past when the calm of the Logan County, West Virginia community was forever broken by the breaking of the coal refuse dam that left a community devastated, hundreds homeless and one-hundred and twenty-five men, women and children drowned beneath raging black waters. But did the tragedy really end on that fateful day? Might it be that a tragedy began goes on creating tragedy forever? Could it be that there were no survivors even among the ones that escaped the waves of rushing water, mud and debris? Join a survivor, Dulcie Miller, in this West Virginia Writers Convention First Place Award winning novel, as she struggles with these and so many questions in her search for restoration of communion with family, friends, and especially with herself. Follow her journey through pain, grief, anger and loneliness, as she confronts herself and the Ghosts on Buffalo Creek. Listen within yourself at the whispers like hers of your own pain and tragic events in life. Could it be that with Dulcie Miller, you might discover the weapons to break your own chains of tragedy and once again have the freedom to approach life anew?
Joyce Herndon Lackey, a native of Logan County, West Virginia, has well lived the joys and sorrows of the small mining towns and has keenly observed and recorded the circumstances by which the people of those communities attempt to create life. Among her accomplishments besides those of wife, mother, grandmother and friend to many: She has worked as a reporter for the Nicholas Chronicle, in Nicholas County, West Virginia, had a number of short stories and poems published in various magazines, co-founder of Writers-Keepers, a writer's support group, and has now completed her first novel, Ghosts On Buffalo Creek, the 1997 West Virginia Writers Convention First Place Award for a first time novelist. Joyce currently resides with her husband, David, in Summersville, West Virginia, where she is at work on another novel, God Loves Lucy.
