Here by the Owl (audiobook): Recent Episodes

At the height of WWII, the United States plucked nine farm boys from across the country and sent them to a remote island in the Atlantic Ocean for what was designated a "special mission." Here by the Owl is the untold true story of one of those farm boys, a native of the Blue Ridge Mountains named Robert Gray Shipley. While his pregnant wife Agnes is struck with a deadly illness back home, Shipley struggles to understand the horrifying reason why the leaders of the military have made his mission so vital. This full-length audiobook, performed by the author, uses interviews, historic newspaper and magazine articles, long-lost letters, and records from the National Archives to tell a true story of love, loss, and a forgotten Air Force mission that changed the world.