This essay looks at the clandestine nature of PTSD, (Post-traumatic stress disorder) and how it sneaks up on us until "WHAMMO!" as Batman would say, it is too late, weighing unhealthily and squarely on our shoulders. It is my wish that this kind-of, out-of-the-box...
This children’s book, Did I Meet Santa?, is based on a true story that took place one brisk sunny morning in December while on an annual trek to the hills looking for a Christmas tree and to cut some firewood. Sunshine turned to dark gray clouds and dry dirt...
Last Day of the Season From A Baseball’s Point of View is a children’s story about baseball and a child who bravely handles a physical disability. The book was first published in 2003 by California Author Ron Hughart who also wrote The Place Beyond the Dust Bowl. In...
This item is available at no charge. Please click the details link below for download instructions. Many people have read The Place Beyond the Dust Bowl for pleasure. However, many educators have added this book to their curriculum. So we have added a study guide...
Déjà vu can be scary, fun, humbling, overwhelming and confusing, or perhaps a combination of some or all the above. This déjà vu began over twenty-five years ago for Award-winning Author Ron Hughart at a small restaurant in Placerville, California, and still has him...
The Place Beyond the Dust Bowl is a gripping account of life after the “Grapes of Wrath.” It is the story of the plight of Hughart’s migrant family from the Dust Bowl of America, who fled to California and the West to start life anew. “The...
Beyond the Dust Bowl with a Pocket Full of Peanuts is Ron Hughart’s next chapter in his continuing saga of growing up in the 1950’s and 1960’s in the great San Joaquin Valley. Beyond the Dust Bowl With a Pocket Full of Peanuts is Ron Hughart’s...
A former school teacher, award-winning author Ron Hughart wrote this book with past students in mind. Although he changed the names, students described in, ‘Meet the Kids in Room ‘22’’ are based on individuals he remembers from his own fifth-grade classes....