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My book chronicles my life and family through the “Broke Days”
to the present day comfort of Prosperity.
I answer the question, can a poor person, with no college degree, achieve,
advance, and enter into Prosperity?
Excerpt: Prosperity, the Jagged Trail
As with any family, there were accidents in our family as well. I remember Harold and I getting
out of bed one morning and lighting the Kerosene lamp to go downstairs. On the way down the steps, he tripped and fell into
the Kerosene lamp, a ball of fire erupted, and his clothes are on fire! I was directly behind him when he tripped and fell.
Harold’s clothes are on fire; his chest is being severely burned. The fire is burning briskly because of his Kerosene
soaked clothes and Harold is screaming in pain. I screamed for Mom and Dad and as I watched this horrible sight, panic
is on my face. I did not know what to do being young and scared; all I could do is scream. Dad rushed to his aid, in moments
Dad pulled off his burning clothes.
Still screaming in pain, Dad carried Harold to the hospital, we had no transportation to use;
we did not have a car. We had no phone to call for help; there are no phones. There is no other choice but to carry him to
the Hospital and hope for the best. The Hospital is over a mile away from our house, a long way to travel carrying an injured
boy who is screaming in pain.
BIO
A native
of Pottstown, Pennsylvania, a graduate of Pottstown High School, 1955, and 1958 graduate of Pottstown Industrial Trade School,
James H. Graham, employed by Kulicke and Soffa Industries, Horsham, Pennsylvania, worked as a tool and die maker, advancing
to a design engineering manager. He currently resides on a two-acre plot of prime wooded hillside near Pottstown. Graham combined his
love of family, his inquisitive element of “I can do it better,” and experience to write Prosperity, the Jagged
Trail.
The author
is the father/dad of three sons, ranging in ages from forty-three to forty-seven. The author is a retired engineering design
manager and holds several design patents. He is a world traveler, logging close to 500,000 air miles to numerous countries
worldwide. Through this book, he hopes to make a difference in understanding that poor people can advance, develop and be
socially accepted, and have an appreciation for the personal transformation Prosperity will bring
 
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