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Addison Thomas, raised and educated in Michigan, moved to the rural south as the Civil Rights movement gained momentum. The social fabric of the region, the surviving post civil war feudal structure, the layered classes organized to support the elite good old boy system, and the subjugation of justice to the powerful and wealthy was an enigma to him, straining at his ethical and moral beliefs. Often told, "You will never understand, you're just a 'Damn Yankee'" Thomas was an eye witness to a sea change in the South. During his thirty year sojourn, he gained insight into the region. and its people which he now shares in his several works. Thomas lived with his wife, Linda, on the Tennessee River in Chattanooga. He was working again on the novel he planned to publish first, the precursor to Presage and Implosion, "Confluence" and had completed a series of children's stories "Clothesline", which will be published posthumously. |