The Glory Road: The Saga Lives On
A Book by Steven D. Ayres
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About the Book
The GLORY ROAD is a tell all book about the “Trilogy Series – Fallow Are the Fields, We Danced Until Dawn, and Under the Wedding Tree.”
Starting out in 1846, it soon moves into the story of the American Civil War and its impact on the Jett Family on their family farm near Salt Springs, Georgia, just west of Atlanta.
After the war, the turn of the century and the Victorian Age once again disrupt lives with modern inventions and great resorts and financial challenges like never before.
Later the Modern Age arrives and brings with it, new unknown and untried perplexities of the future.
You will have an armchair seat as you too share these great events, as you travel with, then down THE GLORY ROAD.
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The Glory Road: The Saga Lives On, By Steven D. Ayres, Receives Acclaim for Its Ability to Transport Readers Through Events in Our Nation’s History with Authentic Writing and a Focus On Nostalgia
Author Steven D. Ayres’s The Glory Road: The Saga Lives On is a trilogy beginning with two books focused on the Jett family and a third following their descendants into the 21st century. The trilogy covers the Civil War, reconstruction, and contemporary times. Ayres’s work has received accolades for the appreciation it gives the nation’s history and the respect it shows the family at the book’s core.
“…the author’s work is imbued with a yearning for the past…” ~ The U.S. Review of Books
The U.S. Review of Books praises Steven D. Ayres’s trilogy, The Glory Road: The Saga Lives On. In a time when it is more important than ever to examine and learn from the past, Ayres’s books offer a remarkable look at the author’s genealogy detailed in three interconnected stories spanning the years of the Civil War, the Great Depression, and moving to present-day with descendants celebrating on the family’s farm in the shadow of the “wedding tree,” the farm’s 300-year-old oak tree.
“Between war and a cratering economy, Ayres nestles intriguing stories of his lineage with budding romances sealed with love letters and locks of hair.” ~ The U.S. Review of Books
About the Book: Steven D. Ayres’s tell-all trilogy The Glory Road: The Saga Lives On includes Fallow Are the Fields, We Danced Until Dawn, and Under the Wedding Tree. Set on the family’s farm just 20 miles west of Atlanta, Ayres’s first book gives readers an in-depth look into the lives of the Jett family and the way in which the Civil War impacted not only their family dynamics but the manner in which it shaped our country.
The second book in the trilogy, We Danced Until Dawn, continues to follow the Jetts into the reconstruction era, through the turn of the 20th century, and into the Victorian Age. Readers will revel in the descriptions of the great resorts featuring the local mineral Lithia water, claimed as a cure for all of one’s ills. In addition, Ayres treats readers of this installment to a host of modern marvels including the invention of the automobile and the advent of aviation in 1903.
Bearing quite a different look and feel from the first two books in the trilogy, Under the Wedding Tree takes readers on a journey into the 21st century where they witness four “magical” weddings on the family’s farm. Ayres’s third book carries with it a contemporary tone and mood as it looks at the family members and their individual stories.
“…readers will be transported into worlds that are both comprehensive and well-flowing, full of the energy and flair…” ~ The U.S. Review of Books
About the Author: Steven D. Ayres was born in West End of Atlanta, Georgia and grew up on the family farm in what is now Lithia Springs, Georgia. After graduating from his local school system in Douglas County, he attended and graduated from Oxford College of Emory University with an Associate of Arts and Sciences degree. He later received a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration from Guiezeta School of Business and studied law at Mercer University. Ayres is a 50-year-plus Alumni Member of Emory University.
Ayres, also the illustrator for his own books, studied art with the Famous Art Correspondence School of New Haven, Connecticut. Some of his historical paintings can be found in the local Museum of Art and History and previously in the Douglas County Courthouse. The author continues to write and create artwork in addition to serving as a Georgia farmer, raising both Hereford cattle and Haflinger horses. He enjoys art, music, history, aviation, motorcycles, piano, and guitar and considers himself a barnyard legal scholar.
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About the Author
Steven D. Ayres, was born in Atlanta, Georgia, in the West End Community, and attended People Street Elementary School for Kindergarten. His family lived three doors up from the Wren’s Nest, the home of Atlanta Constitution Editor, Joel Chandler Harris, author of the beloved Uncle Remus Tales. Therefore, naturally, The Uncle Remus Library, just up the street, helped to develop in him a growing natural attraction for the Old South and everything in it.
Early on, his family moved to the Lithia Springs area and bought an old, run- down farm, which they began to reestablish. He attended the local schools there and eventually, went on to receive an Associate’s Degree in Arts and Sciences, from Oxford College of Emory University, and later a Bachelor of Business Administration Degree, from Emory University, Goizueta School of Business, and, afterwards studied law for one year at Mercer University. In the meantime, he studied with the Famous Artists School of New Haven, Connecticut, by correspondence, and obtained his Georgia Real Estate Brokers License, and Private Pilot License.
He loves history, art, music, motorcycles, aviation, reading, writing, and many other areas of personal interests. He resides on the old family farm with his wife, Beth, and they enjoy a menagerie of animals.
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Other books by Steven Ayres
Fallow Are the Fields
We Danced Until Dawn
A sequel to Fallow Are the Fields
Under the Wedding Tree
A Sequel to Fallow Are the Fields & We Danced Until Dawn
Surely, Here Comes a Prophet
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