https://kenpierpont.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/KPSP-CARSICKNESS-FORGOTTEN-FINAL-5914-12.16-AM.mp3 A few years ago a family in our church lost their much-loved son to untimely death. To comfort them I created a story to help them see the difficulties of his life are now forever forgotten. I hope you enjoy the story.
Among My Books
Puttering around among my books I spot and old book of pastoral theology passed down to me from my grandpa’s modest library. I take it in hand and turn it over a few times, enjoying the weight of it. Something about it tugs on my memory. I open it. Suddenly it comes back to me […]
Of Trees And Truthfulness
Hear me tell this old chestnut of a story by clicking here: Of Trees and Truthfulness This story is an old chestnut I have been telling for years. It is a rare story. A man only gets a few stories like this to tell in his lifetime. I first wrote it about twelve years ago. […]
A Surprise in the Driveway
A Surprise in the Driveway told by Ken Pierpont When I was small, before my Grandfather Pierpont had retired from Owens Corning Fiberglass in Newark, we visited the farm one weekend. It was in those first few warm and wonderful days of summer. We suburban kids longed so deeply to feel the grass between our […]
Ford 8N
I never see one of these without thinking of the Farm. Grandpa had an old Ford-Ferguson and, for the last few years, a nice 8N or 9N very, very much like the one in this picture. He was proud of it and always wanted to have implements for it. He wanted a front-end loader, but […]
Stories from Licking County Farm
Lately I have been wearing a “costume” sometimes when I tell stories of my grandfather Pierpont’s farm. I’m working on publishing a collection of these stories soon. It may be an eBook. Grandpa, who died in October of 1980 would never have believed the stories of his humble farm would be told all over the […]
Carsickness Forgotten
Seeking a way to comfort families grieving the loss of their loved ones I wrote this story: There was a boy who always grew deathly ill of carsickness on long trips. It happened especially on the way to his grandparents home when the hills began to roll. He was in such pain, that he would […]
Number Four Birdshot
Purring through the dark on a long trip one night my Dad got to talking. He told me a shocking story about our family. During the depression chickens were mysteriously disappearing from the family farm just north of Chatham, Ohio. Times were hard. Money and food were scarce. After a number of chickens disappeared they […]
Heart Food
This is chapter sixteen from my new book Licking County Farm. I releasing this book a chapter at a time and sending the each chapter week-by-week in the Stonebridge Newsletter on Monday mornings. If you would like to read the book, subscribe to the newsletter on the tab to the right above. If you enjoy […]