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Here are nostalgic memories of life in a small town in Illinois during the Depression years, as experienced by a small boy whose father was a miner until he lost his job. The times were hard and money was scarce, but families and neighbors shared hardships and simple pleasures, church and school, fishing, the county fair, the WPA, the lettuce patch, "visiting," birth and death, kites and mumbly-peg.
Ruth M. Elmquist says of this book: "It savors the essential goodness of simple living. As the author says, what a youngster's feet touch as he jumps out of bed – old linoleum or worn carpeting – doesn't necessarily mark his destiny; what counts is the kind of person who walks across these floors: 'What we are is far more than what we eat or where we live or what we wear.'"
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