About Us
Welcome to Enchanted Green Acres
Where Storytelling Takes Root
Enchanted Green Acres is the literary home of husband-and-wife writers Clyde and Terry Housel — a growing landscape of memoir, history, folklore, observation, humor, and imagination rooted in the people and places that shaped our lives.
Here you’ll find stories that dig into the soil of the past: family lore, rural traditions, coal patch towns, forgotten farm culture, vineyard life, roadside oddities, antique contraptions, carnival mishaps, and true tales so unusual they sound invented.
Some pieces are grounded firmly in fact and memory. Others wander deliberately into embellished storytelling, where truth and folklore sit comfortably beside one another. But all are rooted in the belief that every life, every place, and every weathered object carries a story worth preserving — whether it is an abandoned springhouse, a collapsing coal town, a front porch conversation, or a box of fading photographs tucked away in a biscuit tin.
We cultivate memory, history, knowledge, and imagination much like the land we live on.
Enchanted Green Acres serves both as a publishing home for completed works and as a proving ground for works still taking shape — essays, memoirs, serialized stories, poems, historical reflections, vineyard journals, and books in progress. Some pieces remain standalone works. Others eventually grow into larger collections, self-published books, performances, or future literary projects.
Throughout the site you may encounter Appalachian ghosts, eccentric relatives, old mining towns, wandering foxes, stubborn farm equipment, front porch philosophy, vintage Americana, and the slow art of tending vineyards and restoring forgotten places — all threaded together with a wry sense of humor and deep respect for heritage, resilience, and the absurdity of ordinary life.
Our intention is simple:
- Preserve what might otherwise disappear.
- Entertain with stories both strange and true.
- Pass along knowledge that once lived in barns, kitchens, workshops, coal camps, and country stores.
- Celebrate the beauty, hardship, humor, and contradictions of the generations that came before us.
- Create new literary works rooted in real landscapes, lived experience, and enduring memory.
We are writers, researchers, land stewards, historians, DIYers, vineyard keepers, and collectors of family yarns.
Above all, we believe the best stories rarely come from perfection. They come from lived experience, shared roots, hard lessons, odd characters, and the willingness to laugh at the chaos of it all.