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Jennie Helderman

Author. Blogger. Activist.

Growing up in my family, you had to thread a worm onto a bream hook or tell stories. I can still do both.
I'm an author, blogger, speaker, and champion of women and children. Can tell my stories or help you tell yours.
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From Padlock to Glory—Ginger Shines at ASU

May 2, 2016 Leave a Comment

Ginger wins award for the far-reaching effects of her work with domestic violence.

A cabin hidden behind a padlocked gate, Revelation and a .38. but Ginger escaped. In 2000 she left with her two boys, her hair wet with the coffee her husband … [Read more...]

Sparks Fly for Old Lovers

April 6, 2016 Leave a Comment

Sparks fly when elderly couple routines to scene of first sex, proving old love still exciting by Jennie Helderman

  The husband leans over and asks his wife, "Do you remember the first time we had sex together over fifty years ago? We went behind the village … [Read more...]

Cousin Claude and That One-Legged Woman

April 5, 2016 Leave a Comment

Cousin Claude died in arms of one-legged woman and family wants his body returned for burial.

Just because somebody’s kin, you don’t have to like him, but you can’t bust your buttons telling tales about his funeral else kinfolk you do like might be hurt. … [Read more...]

Teen Saves Kidnapped Woman

April 5, 2016 Leave a Comment

An alert seventeen-year-old in Montreal sensed something was wrong. He saw the woman resisting the man but he couldn't be sure. So he pretended to befriend the … [Read more...]

The Last of Mountain Tom

April 5, 2016 Leave a Comment

Lee Freeman paints Tom as an urban legend in a scholarly paper. Here are the first paragraphs: Tales from Beyond the Grave: The Life and Legend of Thomas … [Read more...]

More About Mountain Tom’s Lynching

April 1, 2016 Leave a Comment

  Mountain Tom Clark, the outlaw who was lynched and then buried under a highway in Florence, Alabama, first surfaced in Lauderdale County, Alabama, … [Read more...]

Funeral Fresh Flowers

March 25, 2016 Leave a Comment

Florist sign read "Funeral Fresh Flowers" for sale and I wondered at the meaning.

“Funeral Fresh Flowers” read the sign on the plate glass window of a florist shop, and I did a doubletake. Funeral fresh? What on earth does “funeral fresh” … [Read more...]

Mountain Tom Clark and 150 Year Revenge

March 25, 2016 Leave a Comment

It’s doubtful Mountain Tom Clark had a funeral. Hard to imagine a lynching ending in a ceremony, so call this a “laying to rest story.” Mountain Tom, … [Read more...]

Pistol-Toting Granny Thwarts Car-Jackers

March 20, 2016 Leave a Comment

Elderly woman pulls gun to thwart car-jacking then finds it's not her car in funny story by Jennie Helderman

An elderly Florida lady did her shopping and, upon returning to her car, found four males in the act of leaving with her vehicle. She dropped her shopping … [Read more...]

An Elephant, Stag and Rambling about Research

March 18, 2016 Leave a Comment

Ad for elephant on display in Alabama frontier in 1810 before roads and cities. by Jennie Helderman

  By Jennie Helderman In 1810 a man in Huntsville, Alabama, sold tickets to see an elephant. I have a copy of the flyer advertising the event. Now I happen … [Read more...]

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Author Photo Jennie Miller Helderman is the author of As the Sycamore Grows, winner of six national nonfiction awards, speaker on domestic violence and women's issues, and freelance writer.

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