Generations

About the Book

Generations is a book about the author’s search for his ancestors. The book traces the author’s genealogy back through slavery. As the author states; we cannot possibly know ourselves, let alone know where we are going until we are willing to first take the time to learn from where, and from whom we have come. Like many, the author grew up attending public schools and hating history. However, as he matured, a paradigm shift in his thoughts concerning history occurred. Through this book, the author inspires and encourages others to understand the importance of the past, in particular, their own. But more importantly is the author’s desire to get readers to understand society’s critical need to learn from our ancestors through knowledge of what they got wrong, and to gain strength and hope from the things they did right.

About the Author

Kenneth Anthony Hordge Sr. was born in the Bronx in New York City. He also lived in Flushing and Brooklyn where he resided with his mother and siblings until 1969 when they moved to the midwestern city of Indianapolis. Mr. Hordge has held several occupations, from finance and accounting clerk, and television production assistant, to freelance photographer. Currently he earns his living as an independently contracted tour director traveling throughout the country inspiring youth by exposing them to opportunities and showing them how to chart a course toward those opportunities. He is a smooth jazz enthusiast, and world traveler who has visited six of the seven global continents. He is a graduate of the School of Communication Arts, where he studied visual communications. He is also a graduate of the International Tour Management Institute, and has recently completed coursework to receive his certificate in Cultural Heritage Tourism from Indiana University. His first writing venture began when he wrote travel articles for a local Indianapolis newspaper called: “Exploring Your Heritage.” His background in motivating youth and adults spans 20 years, having been involved with prison ministries, and mentoring youth through networks such as the Boy Scouts of America as well as the Cub Scouts. He developed and implemented his own for mentoring youth in the juvenile detention center in Indianapolis. One of his most adventurous achievements is the completion of a personal goal of having visited 50 countries and all 50 of the United States. He loves challenges and is motivated by his accomplishment of publishing three books; Memoirs of a Melanin Sojourner 1 & 2, and his latest; Generations; a study of his ancestors going all the way back to the slave trade and the continent of Africa. His accomplishments have inspired him to embrace even more his motto, which says: “tomorrow’s life is too late, live today.”