There are certainly some riches in the little community of Hopewell, which is only a short few miles from Potosi.  The story of the Iron Mountain Baby took me to the cemetery there, where he is buried.

What a tale - of a lost and found baby who many say was thrown off a train and raised by a loving family!  I even ran into a couple of men who knew the history about as first hand as anyone could!  It was a fun fall afternoon last year.  

This is a favorite of Potosi area story-tellers, most likely because it is certainly unique and comes with a good dose of how loving country-raised Americans handled problems in the "good ole days"!  I like to think that these values remain a trade-mark of the community's  good citizens.

I hope you will enjoy reading this story when my book about growing up in Potosi comes out soon!  More to come on the specifics!  In the meantime, I hope to post more previews as we count down to release time!!