Jimmy Byrge

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Meet Jimmy

Jimmy Byrge is an East Tennessee writer whose work is rooted in the Appalachian mountains he has called home his entire life.

Raised in a coal mining community, he developed a deep respect for the land, its traditions, and the people who shaped his life.

Faith, family, and heritage guide Jimmy’s storytelling. His stories, poems, and songs reflect the warmth, resilience, and sense of community found throughout the Tennessee mountains. He lives in his home community with his wife, close to their children and grandchildren.

The Evergreen Christmas Tree is Jimmy’s first published children’s book. Through his writing, he hopes to preserve and share the mountain adventures, memories, and voices that might otherwise be forgotten.

Upcoming Events 

Los Angeles Kids Book Festival

August 23, 2026 9:00 a.m – 4:30 p.m.
West Hollywood Park – Hollywood, CA

Stop by and see Jimmy at the Los Angeles Kids Book Festival this August and get copies of your favorite books. 

Anderson County Historical Society

August 27, 2026 6:30p.m.

Jimmy Byrge will be a guest speaker at the Anderson County Historical Society meeting at the the Clinton, Tennessee Library. 

TenDEAFestival

September 12, 2026 9:00 a.m – 4:00 p.m.
Knoxville Center of the Deaf

A nationwide celebration of Deaf culture, creativity, and community — featuring businesses and vendors from across the U.S. who uplift and support the Deaf community.

Want to see Jimmy at your event? Reach out at authorjimmybyrge@gmail.com. 

This Ole Flag

Written by Jimmy Byrge

The wind a blowing on a warm summer day

Something caught my eye

And took me away

It was if this ol flag had something to say

It’s beat and battered

Ya I know

I gotta replace her one of these days

Gonna be hard

Cause every morning

This ol flag and me

We sit together peacefully

It’ll sure be sad

When I replace this ol flag

This ol flag beat and battered from the storm

Weathered and faded

The ends are torn

So proudly waving in the warm summer wind

Reminding me just how long it’s been

Waving for my freedom

Again and again

Her red valor the purest white and her loyal blue

Make up her colors

For me and you

So many have given all to protect her

Or keep her from falling to the ground

Not for her beauty

But for which it stands

A symbol of freedom

And the price paid for you and I

So looking at this ol flag takes me back there

Standing for our freedom

On land sea and air

This ol flag has been to the moon

And planted on a hill in February, World War two

by some soldiers

who didn’t make it through

Reminders our freedom will always be

This ol flag lives in me

Wherever I go

this ol flag is

Kinda like the Lord

It’s in my soul

Beat and battered from the storm

Weathered and faded and the ends are torn

This ol flag was born with only a few stars and stripes

My how it’s grown

I pray she will proudly wave

Long as time goes on

She’s beat and battered by the storm

Weathered and faded and the ends are torn

As long as I breathe

I’ll salute her every morn

This ol flag

Weathered and torn

Children’s Books

The Adventures of a Mountain Boy Vol.1

These stories of my youth have taken me back in time—a simpler time if you will. Families were much larger in our rural mountain community and times were harder in some ways, but it has been such a blessing to put pen to paper while reflecting upon these times. The people I met along my journey that helped shape and mold my life were very important to me. I wanted to capture some of their stories and my own in this first edition of “The Adventures of a Mountain Boy.”

I hope you enjoyed reading my stories and you are looking forward to Vol. 2.

~ Jimmy Byrge

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The Evergreen Christmas Tree

A Christmas Story of the Magic of the Perfect Tree

The Evergreen Christmas Tree is a story about Frank and Virgie Ann’s adventure in searching for the perfect Christmas tree along with their father. On those snow-covered roads, the children learn the true worth of love and strength amidst their trials and tribulations. This wonderful holiday tale will warm readers’ hearts through an amazing narrative with its thought-provoking themes and will remind them of what this great season of Christmas holds within: the power of family, hope, and giving.

The Evergreen Christmas Tree is on more than 50 platforms worldwide in 4 languages, English Spanish French and German, and is also a best seller on Amazon.

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Raymond Signs™

RAYMOND SIGNS is the “story within a story” approach. This pioneering book is a learning adventure for families and all ages whether deaf, hard of hearing, or those who embrace ASL as a second, visual language. Raymond Signs is a bridge of communication that includes all children from ages 1 to 100. “Raymond” becomes the pied piper of this timeless classic that works for any season.

RAYMOND SIGNS promises to be another classic from the inventive imagination of “mountain man” Jimmy Byrge.

Kat Kramer

Patricia Riley

” Kat Kramer’s Films that Change the World”

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Films

Now Streaming Live on Tubi

Thank you Chip Rossetti for bringing film to our community.

Jimmy in the Media

TV Confidential with Ed Robertson 

Jimmy was invited to share The Evergreen Christmas Tree on Ed Robertson’s podcast with creative team Kat Kramer and Patricia Riley. 

Hear what people are saying about Jimmy’s works:

I just opened them last night and I did not put it down until I read every single word in there some I read 2 times and absolutely love it. This book will be my company on the many nights I’m not sleeping. When will volume 2 be out? I can’t tell you how many precious memories this book has reminded me of. You have a very special gift that not many people are blessed with!

Sarah Crowley

The Adventures of a Mountain Boy is the true life story’s of Jimmy Byrge who grew up in the community of New River, located in the Cumberland Mountains of North East Tennessee. Home to the Cherokee Indian, Pioneers settling west, loggers and coal miners. It’s the stories about a boy growing up in a world when neighbors were considered family and had the permission to apply discipline to their children’s playmates if necessary.

It’s a place where every worn path from the road to the river was a good fishing hole or a great swimming hole. It was a place where you could share the road with log trucks and coal trucks on your bicycle going to a friend’s house. Basketball games at Rosedale school on Friday nights was a huge community event, whether we won or lost

As we get older we look back and yearn for the good ole days of our youth. We can pull a memory from our youth and bring it back to life in our minds eye and relive it for a moment or two, in color.

Thank God!

Scotty Phillips – Local Historian and Owner of New River General Store