Lincoln Reflections: And Other Poems by an Indiana Native

Jack B. Haskins is a native Hoosier, born in 1929 in Pike County. He is the seventh son of Byron and Bessie Capehart Haskins and the last survivor of the brothers. Educated in Pike and Daviess counties, he has degrees from Greenville College, Indiana State University, and Southern Methodist University. He entered the Indiana Conference of the United Methodist Church in 1959 and retired in 1991, having served pastorates in central and southern Indiana. He was also a district superintendent of the Columbus District. He is married to Dolores Denbo; they have two children, Rebekah and Peter, and six grandchildren. This is his second book. The previous one, Garden Reflections, came out in 1981.