Childhood Memories

Join the author on a trip back to a time when the roads were dirt and the times were hard. Sam Varney shares what life was like growing up in the coal mining area of Southwestern Virginia. It is an engaging look at the folklore and traditions of a simpler time in the Appalachian Mountains. When the Roads Were Dirt collects a series of articles originally presented in the Virginia Mountaineer plus additional material not previously released in the paperback version.

When a Partridge Family like band came to perform at my elementary school in March of 1974, it provided an epic moment in my life. A funny and nostalgic coming of age short story, My Encounter with The Partridge Family is another entertaining true tale from the pen of James J. Caterino, the author of Method Acting, To Meghan, and How Not to Become a Hollywood Screenwriter.

Azar Nafisi, author of the beloved international best seller Reading Lolita in Tehran, now gives us a stunning personal story of growing up in Iran, memories of her life lived in thrall to a powerful and complex mother, against the background of a country's political revolution.

Memories of my childhood and the street I grew up on in Jacksonville, Illinois. A collection of fond memories of mine growing up in the 50's & 60's of my childhood adventures and memories to the best of my recollection. Enclosed I have inserted some photo's of my family along with photo's compliments of Google Search of Park Place street Jacksonville, Illinois my home town. Being a baby boomer I can recall many historic events as well some of which I will share within. This non-fiction book is a true work of love of my childhood memories then and now. I hope baby boomers will enjoy as well ...

Beginning their annual camping trip on the Metolius River in scenic Central Oregon, Anne and her family shockingly discover a body lying in the picturesque, crystal clear headwaters of the river. Step back in to the '60s as deputies from the Jefferson County Sheriff's Department identify the victim, discover clues from Alberta to California, and attempt to unravel this cozy who-done-it, revealing multiple suspects, twists and turns all without the assistance of modern-day technology. In the meantime, Anne's family and camping pals climb Black Butte, feed the trout at Wizard Falls Fish ...

What makes a boy tick? Has our view of boys evolved as society has changed? Is boyishness in the genes or learned after birth? John Redwood shares with the reader his experiences as a young boy growing up in post War Britain when boys were told to be boys. With an unusually long memory of childhood stretching for him back into the pram he takes us through what it felt like to be a baby then a boy responding to the adult world around him. Sitting on a chair was an exercise in mountaineering. Trying those first steps instead of crawling fast around the floors were dogged by fears of falling ...

An old man, realizing cherished memories of the past are quickly fading, decides to run away in search of his youth. This creative memoir is about “going home again”, reliving early-life experiences, and re-establishing childhood friendships. He and old friends, the “boys in the band”, recall early tales of youth from their world during the late ’40s and early 1950s.

By any measure, Ed Zahniser is one of the truest poets in America in this century. If you love mountain poetry and wilderness on the page, Adirondack Mountain & Cabin Poems is your next read. Ed Zahniser writes from the Adirondack cabin he's visited since the 1940s. Here is the mountain experience rendered by the poet’s words and beyond. Encounter the bird that reads the poet’s note on the tree and startles away. A harvest of wilderness after-thoughts, Ed’s mountains restore the reader time and again: Paper Birch Scribble scribble scribble idly on white birchbark Leave these on the ...

Over 70 years of Memories Of a life well lived Come on a journey with me through my childhood, mariage and life in general.

Young Mendel, from age four to 14, tells in vivid detail the wretched journey in cramped cattle cars through frigid Russia, the indignities of being forced labor, the shame of begging for bread just to survive, and death of those closest to him. The family's plight includes abandonment, hunger, and separation (and later remarkable twists of fate and reunion) quite unlike other Holocaust stories.

Last night I dreamt of Woodlands .... this has been a reoccurring dream all my life, a place of childhood memories where it is always summer. Long days exploring the countryside full of flowers and magic, lost in time itself between the hills, fields down to the Jurassic shoreline of Somerset. This book takes you through my early childhood with memories and snippets of history about the places I lived in, we moved houses several times in Somerset until we finally settled in the Midlands. We continued to visit our family for the summer holidays for many years and my heart is in those country...

What secrets does a photograph hold? The dusty old photograph of Megan Forrester and a little boy in a pink Barbie car sparks a nostalgic feeling within her. But as she cleans out her late parents' home, the image begins to consume her thoughts. Why can't she find someone who looks at her with the same adoration as the little boy in the photo? Lost and unsure of her future now that she's no longer a caretaker, Megan becomes fixated on finding the boy from the photo. With the help of a private detective, she uncovers five possible candidates scattered across the country. But as she travels ...

A short bittersweet tale of childhood remembrance. "Laughter, Pathos & Muscles" is also available in paperback, hardback and e-book form as part of the collection Easy Money & Other Stories. When his work happened to lead him through the cafeteria during lunchtime, tables of boys and girls would shout, “Hey, Muscles, show us your muscles!” He’d oblige us and weave among the tables flexing his arms, making crazy faces, and rattling off one-liners. Even the crabby, old lunch ladies had to laugh when Muscles put on a show. When he was in an especially good mood, he’d add the much-loved...

An ideal gift for a gentle reader of any age, this first volume of the series, The Essence of Emily Evans includes a symphony of intensely descriptive pieces. The settings range from the author's childhood years on an Ohioan farm through her time in Buffalo, Brooklyn, Greenwich Village, Cocoa Beach, and more. Filled with lyric poems of nature, and thrilling, delightful, and sometimes wrenching images of her personal experiences, it was awarded five stars by Literary Titan, who declared it "a very promising start to a series." Volumes II and III will be released in 2024. Excerpts from Volume...

She’ll be home for Christmas… After years of chasing her dreams as an interior designer in the bustling city, Grace returns to Evergreen, a quaint mountain town that holds the magic of her childhood Christmases. The twinkling lights and festive atmosphere of her childhood Christmases bring back warm memories, but it's reuniting with her childhood best friend, Ethan, that truly stirs her heart. When the mayor calls for volunteers to organize the town's annual Christmas Eve festival, Grace jumps at the chance to make this holiday season one to remember. With Ethan by her side, Grace dives...

Bill Bryson's hilarious memoir of growing up in middle America in the Fifties, complete, unabridged and read by the author. Born in 1951 in the middle of the United States, Des Moines, Iowa, Bill Bryson is perfectly positioned to mine his memories of a totally all-American childhood for 24 carat memoir gold.

Were you a kid in the 60s and 70s? Then you’ll love this book. It’s chock full of short stories about growing up during that period in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. A time when life was about playing outside, exploring the woods, riding bikes, and playing games in the street. There were no cell phones, internet, or social media. The news came wrapped in a rubber band and landed on your doorstep thrown by a kid on a bicycle. Nobody wore helmets when they rode their bikes and nobody used seatbelts. You could disappear all day and your parents didn’t even know where you were. Just as long ...

What was the daily life of children like in the 50s? Although we strive to complicate it, life is originally simple, and looking at it through the eyes of some girls may remind us, or teach us, that we should see everything in an easier way. This novel takes us to a microcosm of a city, not very large in size but rich in history, in which the little protagonists are immersed in their particular stories and with these they have fun, play, suffer, cry, laugh, go out and they enter, take us back to a world that no longer exists, and makes us meditate on universal concepts: friendship, family, ...

A touching literary discovery, 402 Avalon follows a boy's journey during the 1950s through one of San Francisco's most mysterious houses that was built during the 1880s. This curious true story about a neglected boy, his uncommon family, the gushing growth of San Francisco and the infamous house is part intrigue, part innocence and part discovery. 402 Avalon is a stunning portrait of a child wanting guidance, living in the haunted three-story wooden structure that was dangerous.

As a genealogist, what would you give to spend one day with one of your ancestors? To witness everyday details of his or her life, whether it involved a favorite recipe, cooking methods, gardening, transportation or how children spent their day? Genealogy and stories related to major life events are often found in journals and other sources, but what about activities such as holiday celebrations or games children played on balmy summer evenings? Wouldn't you like to go one step beyond vague stories about walking four miles to school through two feet of snow or canning peaches on a woodstove...