Wayne Welch – Author of Personal Growth Books

I was born in my grandparents’ home  in Judson, North Carolina. Judson no longer exists. It lies at the bottom of Fontana Lake. Until age 4 I lived in a log house built by my father and grandfather. When Fontana dam was built, the lake flooded all access to our property and we were forced to move. This property is now part of the great Smoky Mountains national Park. My father was quite ill with tuberculosis and died at age 32 when I was five. My mother had two years college and a teaching certificate and she taught school in one room school houses with eight grades in the same room all over western North Carolina. We lived in a series of rent houses with no electricity, running water, or inside plumbing.