Up on a hill and thereabouts : an Adirondack childhood /
"Childhood recollections of life in the Adirondack Mountains during the Great Depression"--Provided by publisher
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| Language: | English |
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Albany :
Excelsior Editions, State University of New York Press,
2013
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Table of Contents:
- Up on a Hill and Thereabouts: An Adirondack Childhood; Contents; Preface; Heading for the Mountains; Moving on from Stoney Lonesome; Nellie and My Birthday Cake; The Peeking Game; Suppertime; For a Little While, My Friend; Uncle Arthur's Tree; Outside; Bigness; Voodooing Carly; O'Prince, Grandpa and Me; Rhode Island Reds; My Miracle; The Blind Man; Christmas Came Early; Keeping Christmas; The Day I Had Charge; Making the Run; Never Let the Left Hand Know; Sauce on the Ceiling; My First Symphony; Old Beets; Ernest; Little Coat; About My Very Own Dog; Cousin Henry and Strawberries.
- Junior, Little Boy LostAt Last We Got a Car; Rock of Ages; With Love to Our Catholics; No More Make-Believe, Virginia; The Bums; The Stones; On Swimming Holes and Pigs; Gypsies and Good Luck; The Fourth of July; And So We Had Milk; Candy Bar; Down in the Narrow; I Am a Lily, Easter 1934; Lake George Vacation; A Four-Day Vacation During the Depression; The Wedding Reception; Elmer Clanged; Afternoon at the Carnival; Circus Time; Great-grandpa Hall; Pros and Cons of Red Twine; Politics, Country Style; Typical Late Summer Morning; Re ections; Oh My God, Bedbugs.
- Just Another Day at School, or the Joys of TeachingAngelo; Old Alice, or My First Halloween; Did We or Didn't We?; The Summer Picnic; I'll Always Owe Beatty One; Charlie Fox; Fertility; Special Friend; Talking to Sarah; To Get a Better Place; All About Eggs; Solving Problems; Kayo, Free Spirit; Rolland Rivers' Rope; Silence; Up in the Overshot; In Every Garden There's a Serpent; Playing With Fire; My One and Only; Henry Galusha's Bananas; Our Maine Adventure 1937; Learning About Sex and Musterole; Davey vs. Old Faithful; Crown Point Bay; Kitchen Hops, "Staying Good," and Swearing Off Men.
- Finally Getting To Be ThirteenCourtship; There's Always One; Jencie and the Best Day Ever; Not to Worry; To My Beloved Teacher, Mrs. Connors; Carrie's Wintergreen Patch; Crystal Summer; Indoor Toilets vs. False Teeth; Who Lived Where in Chilson-1930s; Side Roads off Chilson Road; Fires I Have Known; How I Happened; Mrs. Rite; Special Pal; Songs; Courting; My Pony; Row, Row, Row; Don't Leave; Round the Mountain; Down Mexico Way; Inky, Dinky, Parlez-vous; Epilogue; To My Family.
