Barsoom meets Barry the Wolf Dog: Childhood on the Platte River writ small
Автор:Orlo Wilder Год: 2012 Издание: [не указанo] Страниц: 232 ISBN: 0983584516 It all happened from 1947 to 1950 mostly on the wrong side of the tracks in a remote prairie town on a fabled river, a jillion things caused by the exploding minds and restless feet of an army of kids. Decades later, proofs of these things are as concrete as an echo. Yet echoes of long-gone events have a ring oftruth. After all: a?? Did Lincoln grade school not teem with kids? a?? Did kids not cheer Roy Rogers at the State Theater? a?? Did the Plainsmen not play baseball summer nights? a?? Did Harry Truman not make a whistle stop there? a?? Did we not endure the great blizzard of 1949? a?? Did everyone not dread polio every summer? a?? Did soapbox cars not careen down the viaduct? a?? Did River Wolves not run amuck on the Platte? Leaning on such a?factsa?? Orlo Wilder recalls long-gone events. To mangle a Mark Twain quote: Orlo stretched some things but now and then he did tell the truth.
