Our Front Yard

The history of the Larue community is included in this book. Many of the old businesses are mentioned, along with a story about a bank robbery and a story about the old jail house. Ronald and Carole leave the busy city and raise their five children in the country, in the hills between the communities of Larue, New York and Poynor, Texas. Mr. McClure shares many adventures of his children as they grow up playing on dirt roads, climbing trees, working on their place and on ranches of neighbors. They encounter wild coyotes that attack their dogs and have interesting adventures. Ronald shares adventures when he travels down into central Old Mexico and when he stays with the locals in the mountains in the Caribbean island of Jamaica. He sinks a sailboat. He has a motorcycle wreck on an Interstate Highway, late one night, and hitches a ride with a strange man who turned out to be a well known serial killer. Inspirational stories of tradition are shared, along with a unique blend of good wholesome living, with poems cleverly placed throughout, acquainting the reader with the Texas way of life, both of nowadays and of long ago. This unique biography of Ronald McClure?s family of seven is written in Mr. McClure?s words, revealing his spirit, his love for the simple things in nature and his adventurous perspective of life. His childlike spirit is reflected throughout his writings. Adults will enjoy reading this book and younger readers, as well.