01/16/2026
NEW BOOK NOW AVAILABLE đź“•
ARNEL’S STORY
ABOUT THE MAN- Arnel Buford Thompson
“Times were hard for people in rural southern West Virginia. Arnel Thompson’s life became harder after his body was paralyzed from the waist down at the age of four by an attack of polio in 1917.
Many hard times followed. It was not until 1924, seven years after suffering the attack, that Arnold entered the Children’s hospital at Huntington for treatment. His treatment was for sixteen months in two periods in 1924 and 1925, where his body fitted with braces that he finally learned to walk with crutches.
His schooling continued. In 1930 he entered Talcott high school and completed the four-year course on time – traveling to and from by horseback.
Under the W.VA. Rehabilitation Program he entered West Virginia Business College in Bluefield in 1936 and completed the commercial course. Upon his return home he established his shop which continued the rest of his life. This book details, by his family and friends, “a life well lived”.
Arnel’s Story by Phyllis Campbell Whitley - book is available for purchase by mail-in form
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Other books by this author:
Thesagaofvirginiaham.com $35,00 Photographeronhorseback.com $20.00 &
Barnsofsummerscounty.com $42.00
