Jimmy Dill
Jimmy Dill grew up in Fairfield, Alabama. He and his wife, Diane, have two daughters and five grandchildren.
They currently reside in Shelby County, Alabama.
Books by
Jimmy Dill
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Order Now: The Adventures of Red Dog and His Friends: Fair Hills and The Missing Toed-ToadThe characters found in -The Boys of Fair Hills- Red Dog and His Friends- are taken from The Boys of Fair Hills and Gracie’s Cafe. In the mid-1950’s, a young boy and his sister set out on a train to visit a little farm in Kentucky that was the home of an aunt and uncle. Their grandmother accompanied them on the trip. The trip was a fun-packed adventure that resulted in memories enough to last a lifetime.
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Tears to Justice
$17.50Order Now: Tears to JusticeTears to Justice is a work of fiction. Upon graduating from West Point in 1838, Second Lieutenant Jacob Johnson fulfilled his father’s dream of having a son serve as a United States Army officer. His father had been orphaned at the age of ten when his parents were killed by Cherokees in the Massacre of Long Cane Creek, South Carolina.
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Between Santa Fe and Tucson
$17.50Order Now: Between Santa Fe and TucsonBetween Santa Fe and Tucson is a work of fiction set in the mid-1870’s. The setting is mostly around Santa Fe in the New Mexico Territory, as well as parts of Colorado and the Arizona Territory.
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Order Now: Seasons of the Holiday SpiritNow featuring five stories!
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Order Now: Where the Humor Meets the RoadWhere the Humor Meets the Road had its origins some 30,000 feet above the ground, and in airports across the country in the mid-1970’s. A series of less than enjoyable experiences, while traveling by air, resulted in the abandonment of the airways. Road trips across the highways, byways, and backroads of the country seemed the logical alternative to soaring through the clouds. Traveling by water was just too complicated a way to reach the nooks and crannies of a country that span over two thousand miles from coast to the coast and more than a thousand miles from Green Bay…
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Order Now: The Boys of Fair Hills – A Most Unusual SummerFor the young boys of Fair Hills, the first day of summer never came soon enough, nor did the day last long enough. But there was one exception, at least with respect to the length of the day. That exception came following their 7th grade school year. The summer of 1958 started out like the other first days of summer for the Fair Hills boys. School always let out just before Memorial Day. As the bell closed out the final day of 7th grade, the boys were moving up from Little League to Pony League. They were excited but a…
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Colfax to Santa Fe
$17.50Order Now: Colfax to Santa FeFor Rankin Scott, the former Sheriff of Colfax County in the New Mexico Territory, Pine Canyon afforded him just the right amount of peace and solitude he needed to recover from the previous year. He had become the sheriff to avenge his brother’s murder. MacKenzie Scott had served as the Sheriff of Colfax County before his untimely death.
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The Pearl of St. Simons
$17.50Order Now: The Pearl of St. SimonsThe Pearl of St. Simons is a fictional story set in the mid-1960’s at the University of Georgia and on St. Simons Island. A semiretired history professor comes back to campus to teach a research project. She selects the extended family of President James Madison for the project. To motivate her students, and to be creative in her approach, she fabricates a riddle that indicates that a fortune might be discovered by anyone researching the history and the experiences of the Madisons. Her grandson, who is finishing high school, hears about the project and decides to enroll in the University…
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Order Now: The Sheriffs of Colfax CountyThe Sheriffs of Colfax County is a work of fiction set in the late 1860’s and early 1870’s. The primary setting is the New Mexico Territory and the surrounding territories and states of the West. The reputation of the West, as being wild and unruly, was often not exaggerated. It was not uncommon for disputes to be settled by the sixgun. County sheriffs and US Marshalls enforced the law, and kept a sense of order as best that they could. Judges administered justice swiftly. It was mostly fair, but always swift.
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Order Now: Gleanings of a Shade Tree AuthorGleanings of A Shade Tree Author is a compilation of short stories, poems, travel experiences, and personal encounters of a humorous kind.
Gleanings is a mix of fiction and nonfiction writings, spanning almost five decades. Beginning with encouragement from the author’s wife of fifty years, early writings were poems centered on special occasions and life experiences. -
Gracie’s Cafe
$17.50Order Now: Gracie’s CafeGracie’s Cafe is set in the Deep South during the mid-1950’s. Cain Valley, lying near the southern terminus of the Appalachian Mountains, is a small, mostly-farming community. While most of the Cain Valley residents farm for a living, a few work at jobs in the town, or in a nearby coal mine.
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The Boys of Fair Hills
$17.50Order Now: The Boys of Fair HillsSet in a small southern community in the 1950’s, “The Boys of Fair Hills” chronicles the adventures of several young friends who roamed the hills and woods of the community, somewhat at will, on summer days. Along the way, they had frequent encounters with an elusive red dog, experiences that stretch imaginations, and were befriended by a toad with a missing toe.