Hendersonville Olympics by Joseph Kovler

 

Hendersonville Olympics
 By Joseph Kovler 

Publication Date: 5th March 2024

Publisher: Historium Press

Print Length: 100 Pages

Genre: Historical Fiction

In the summer of 1965, Josh, an athletic fourteen-year-old Jewish boy from New York City, travels to Hendersonville, North Carolina. He spends this summer with four distant and culturally different cousins who invite him to participate in the teenage rural "Olympics." These sports, all foreign to him, include shooting, rock skipping, horseshoe throwing, wood chopping, fishing, and mountain relay races. Living next to a white supremacist soldier returning from Vietnam and his brother, who is about to leave for Vietnam, Josh is exposed for the first time to a war that has yet to make the headlines. The police suspect these two brothers of stealing and killing family dogs in and around Hendersonville. As the police question them, Josh finds himself in mortal danger, and he experiences anti-Semitism at a level he hasn't seen before.

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Joseph Kovler

Joe writes historical fiction based on Long Island’s varied and rich history. He has written a number of award-winning scripts including a science fiction/love/pirate tale set in the 1700’s about Captain Kidd’s wife Sarah. The plight of three Jewish boxers at a Nazi summer camp in Yaphank, NY, as World War II developed in Europe, was the basis for his award-winning script and first novella of the same name, “At the Corner of Hitler and Goering.” The dramatic accounting of the experiences of two Cuban refugees sponsored by the CIA and the Catholic Church as part of “Operation Pedro Pan” and sent to live at the Camp Hero Air Force Base in Montauk, NY during the Cuban Missile Crisis was the inspiration for his script, "Camp Hero," and the novella, "Dangerous Crossings."

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