1975– a nontraditional history book.

Author Carlos Jones’ family descends from one of Louisville’s most prominent indigenous communities, Smoke town. The family had lived there on record since 1910. There are even streets in Smoketown such as, Breckenridge street, that share the same sur name of some of his family lineage who lived in Smoketown. Ie Sallie and Lucy Breckenridge Jones who are featured in this novel.

In 1918 Lucy established a covenant with his royal Majesty William Henry Jones II, these are the great great grandparents of the author, both where noble in their own right, they both had seven children together. William is recognized as the first Bourbon Electrician in the Kentucky Commonwealth. Both are buried in Louisville’s historic Eastern Cemetery.

Lucy was of Cherokee- Irish descent and William was Lakota Sioux Indian and his grandfather Tincup migrated from the Blackhills in South Dakota during the time that buffalo were being excavated by the United States Government to force the indigenous people to depend on them for their food supply. Despite the adversity, Tincup settled the falls in the Ohio river and has descendants numerous as the stars in Louisville and spread throughout the Indian nation.

In this book you will learn about the authors background, pivotal moments in history that occurred throughout the Authors lifetime and his migration story from Louisville to Winston-Salem.

Carlos’ late grandmother Dorothy Jordan, the grand daughter of William and Lucy, was the first from the family to relocate to North Carolina, she was the fifth Bourbon to work at Brown &Williamson . When the branch she worked at in Louisville closed she opted to go to Carolina; and settled in piedmont Triad another historical city now known as Winston-Salem; Legend holds that the Lakota Sioux originate from this region of the Saura Town Valley Therefore Carlos family could have unknowing returned their original homelands.

The author opens up in 1975 about how him and his mother migrated from Louisville in 1982 to be closer to their matriarch and how mother Darrell consolidated her hair foundation , Darrell’s Salon of Beauty, in the Bethabara, within the first five years of them relocating to the area, the same territory, the Moravians settled in 1753 on Cherokee lands.

Darrell was already notable in Louisville she won hair completions, had legendary clients Louisvillian Darrell Griffin. Perhaps her passion for cosmetology and starting her own salon is rooted from Smoketown which during its prime was said to have a Hair Salon on his block. Or maybe from her Irish great great grandfather Christopher Columbus, the father of Lucy, who during his time period had a barbershop on Walnut Street in Louisville Chestnut street today. Whatever the cause she was extremely successful her most notable clients were Maya Angelou and Sylvia Hamlin.

The author’s objective of this book is to keep his family heritage legacy alive for the generations to come it brings life speaks to indigenous culture, customs and traditions that was inherited through his bloodline. And to document world history from his angle.

From this novel you will get a depiction of what happened to the indigenous families of North America and how we prevailed through adversity.