New Novel tells the Amazing Story of Pioneer-Inventor, Micajah Clark Dyer
On May 15, John Clark, Director of the Georgia News
Network in Atlanta, traveled to the mountains of Northeast Georgia to interview
author Sylvia Dyer Turnage about her recently published book, Flying off Rattlesnake Mountain. Her
book is a narrative, non-fiction story based on life as it was experienced by
the pioneers who came into the mountainous area in 1833 to a land that had long
been occupied by Cherokee and Creek Indians. The story follows the life of
Clark Dyer (1822-1891) and tells how he came to have a remarkable theory about a
machine that could be built to enable a man to fly like a bird.
Turnage is the
great-great-granddaughter of Clark Dyer, and she based her novel on information
gleaned from every available source – old newspapers, census reports, family
recollections and historical records, some copies of which are included in back of
the book.
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