David Thompson 
Odes About Appalachian Life 

The poems and stories attempt to raise concerns about the effects of what is within ones world and what is happening outside of ones world. Some of the situations are personal, some are from what others may have experienced and witnessed to, and some are imaginary. The purpose of the book is to help motivate one to consider ones inward-outward world.

About the author

Reverend Thompson graduated from Hamlin High School, Hamlin, West Virginia, in 1954 and, after a four-year enlistment in the US Army, attended and graduated from Alderson Broaddus College in 1963. He received his master of divinity degree from Crozer Theological Seminary in Rochester, New York, in 1966. He has done additional graduate study at the Andover Newton Theological School in Newton Center, Massachusetts. While in college and in seminary, Reverend Thompson served in churches as a student pastor and as an assistant to the pastor. He has held positions as pastor in West Virginia, Massachusetts, and has served as a minister of Christian education in Rhode Island. Rev. David Thompson has also served as a pastor in the United Church of Canada, Fenelon Falls, Ontario.