Miller’s Pub

About the Book

Miller’s Pub is a fabricated tale. The characters in the plot are fictitious. Any resemblance of people, living or dead, is truly a coincidence. Certain historical events mentioned during the story’s time line are repeated from memory and confirmed by the excellent internet site Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Steven Baker, the principal protagonist, finds himself unexpectedly in a midlife perplexity. Like many entrepreneurs absorbed by the pathways to success and often at the expense of others, he fails to properly recognize the traditional gap in their marriage. In all fairness, Steven may have been blindsided to this customary interval and unprepared to recognize and control it. Since the nineteen fifties, American culture, if there ever was such a thing, has gradually lost its former values. Now, relativism rules the day. Steven’s grandparents lived by the precepts in the US Constitution and their Bible. The Good Book provided the roadmap for their way of life. The changing of society and environment has led to the decay of the old moral significance. Marriage and the family are disrupted and no longer a basic cultural element—it will never return. Today, relativism is taught in the universities of higher learning. The culture of Facebook and Twitter further limits the education of the populace. Their Bible, if they still have one, gathers dust. Any effort to return to our former lifestyle and virtues is shouted down by those in power.

About the Author

George Edward Moon is the author of four published books: Reno’s Funmakers, The Virgin Killer, The Tennessee Mountain Man, and Wagon Tracks Across Kansas. His life experience traveled several roads. He has been artist, actor, athlete, businessman, and teacher. His acting career began at the age of one month when he was carried on stage in one of Reno’s Funmakers theatrical plays. By the time he reached the age of six, he no longer pursued a life tripping the light fantastic. His other achievements came much later. Educated in the sciences, Moon attended the University of Illinois, Southern Illinois University, Governor’s State, and Olivet Nazarene University. A career as a chemist prompted his cofounding a sizable manufacturing company in the Midwest. In 1985, a major corporation based in England acquired it, with Moon continuing as stateside manager for five years. Thereafter, he acted as consultant until retiring. Moon’s writing style is one of constant motion—like a wheel beginning with the hub, then branching out into other tales. Before it ends, he brings it back so it all makes sense. His books reflect his fast-paced style and are an easy and enjoyable read. Miller’s Pub marks a return to life as we view it by today’s standards and an example of the author’s versatility when it comes to subject matter. Now retired in Florida with his wife, Marilyn, he concentrates on the aesthetic principles of expression as well as his talent in oil painting, writing in the hot summer months, and painting during the pleasant winters.