Bob Terrell and Marcellus "Buck" Buchanan

Paperback, 216 pages
ISBN: 0-914875-44-2
$13.00

Here is storytelling at its finest by two well-known North Carolina boys — Bob Terrell, who usually wrote his stories down, and Marcellus Buchanan, who more often told his verbally.

These are tales about people at their best and worst — both simple folk and people in high places. Mostly, the stories concern those men and women who are in the public’s eye because they work in our legal, judicial, or political systems.

Disorder in the Court! contains dozens of hilarious stories from courthouses, lawyers’ offices, and police stations all across the great state of North Carolina.

"Terrell and Buchanan offer anecdotes about punctured politicians and lambasted law enforcement officers... Disorder in the Court! is to be savored as light reading only, bringing many moments that can only be enjoyed." — Willie Patrick in the Salisbury Post

"These irrepressible kinfolk have collaborated on one of the funniest books to tickle the funnybone in donkey’s years." — Mae Woods Bell in the Rocky Mount Telegram

Bob Terrell

A native of Sylva, North Carolina, Bob Terrell lived all his life in Western North Carolina. After attending Western Carolina University, he joined the staff of the Asheville Citizen-Times as a sports reporter. For more than fifty years, readers enjoyed Bob Terrell’s daily columns chronicling the fun and foibles of his family, friends, and neighbors. His many humorous columns comprise several of his most popular books, including Fun Is Where You Find It! and A Touch of Terrell.

After retiring from writing daily columns, Terrell dedicated more time to writing books and traveling, especially to the Mideastern United States and Israel.

Bob Terrell died in May of 2009, shortly after seeing the publication of John Henry Moss: Baseball’s Miracle Man, a biography of the baseball legend who founded minor league baseball’s South Atlantic League and served as its president for fifty years.

Marcellus "Buck" Buchanan

Marcellus Buchanan was born and reared in Sylva, North Carolina. Buck left his native mountains to obtain his legal education at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, then went to Raleigh to spend three terms in the 1950s representing his home county of Jackson — along with Cherokee, Clay, Graham, Haywood, Macon, and Swain counties — in the North Carolina House of Representatives.

Buck also served as Democratic Committee Chairman of Jackson County. His travels and experiences throughout North Carolina gave him ample opportunity to add to his stock of humorous anecdotes.

Disorder in the Court! was Buchanan’s first book, but he long had a local reputation as a memorable storyteller.

Buck Buchanan passed away July 7, 2000.

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