True Mountain Story…

In the remote wilderness of North Georgia during the late 1800’s, just a few miles from the state’s highest peak, a backwoods inventor flew a primitive aircraft repeatedly from his fence-rail launching ramp.

No photos or drawings exist, only word-of-mouth accounts and they are sketchy.   Micajah Clark Dyer, called the “Professor” by friends, relatives and close acquaintances, had obtained an official U. S. Patent for drawings of a wing-flapping attachment for a balloon in 1874, a device he would never build or fly.

But for the remaining years of his life, he experimented tirelessly and became  increasingly secretive about his work, amazing neighbors by flying some sort of glider across his meadow lands. His mind perhaps on a more practical patent, Dyer kept his workshop off limits.  Still, visitors peeped through the cracks to see what one described as a “dragonfly.”

His amazing true-life story inspired Coosa Flyer.

Wally Avett is a semi-retired realtor in the Great Smoky Mountains of North Carolina.  He lives in the same little town, sometimes compared to Mayberry, where he was editor and chief writer all though the 70’s for the weekly newspaper. His first two novels Caney Fork (2013) and Last Bigfoot in Dixie (2014) are published by BelleBooks.

Published by  A-Argus Better Book Publishers 

Represented by Loiacono Literary Agency