A Guitar, a Bible, and a Shotgun

Tommy Jones is a mountain man coming out of the West Virginia countryside with a story to tell and he asked me, Linda Hudson Hoagland, to help him tell it. Tommy grew up as a poverty-stricken child, falling in and out of poverty when he was an adult working man. Now, in his declining years, Tommy and Sharon, his wife, are living on Social Security and whatever God sees fit for them to have. Because Tommy was poor, he learned what it was like for others to give him a helping hand when he needed that boost. His goal in life from boyhood to the present day was to give back to those who needed a helping hand. He always looked at it as a hand up in life, not a hand out.