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ROCKING CHAIR READER:
COMING HOME TIMELESS STORIES THAT SPAN THE GENERATIONS Edited by Helen Kay Polaski Contains the personal essay "Town Dump." |
| Family traditions. Neighborly values. Community pride. In The Rocking Chair Reader series, readers are taken back in time to pre-1955 small-town America, where life was simpler and old-fashioned values meant something. Coming Home, the flagship title in this new inspirational series, features more than sixty true stories from ordinary folks who return to such small towns as . . . Albertville, Alabama Brownsville, Pennsylvania Clyde, North Dakota Felton, California Grand Junction, Colorado Holliston, Massachusetts Indian River, Michigan Marshall, Texas North Arlington, New Jersey Rupert, Idaho Westport, Massachusetts Brimming with small-town wisdom and warm nostalgia, the first in the series, Coming Home, presents the full flavor of the towns the way they used to be-and the way we want to remember them. As an added feature in this magnificent volume, ten towns have been specially profiled, highlighting history, points of interest, and fascinating trivia. So sit back in your favorite rocking chair and enjoy these tales that evoke nostalgia for past eras and the homespun flavor of Main Street, USA. Contains stories by Sandy Williams Driver, Linda Henson, Wade A. Stevenson, Suzanne LaFetra, Arthur Bowler, Claudia McCormick, Leslie J. Wyatt, Barbara Davey, Loretta Miller Mehl, Paul L. Zeimer as told to Lori Z. Scott, Linda Kaullen Perkins, Nan B. Clark, Leigh Platt Rogers, Bob Davis, Jean Davidson, Michele Starkey, Lauretta Pauline as told to Michele Wallace, Campanelli, Syliva Bright-Green, Anna Abrams, Christy Lanier Attwood, Stephen D. Rogers, Mary (Syzmanski) Koss, Kermit Bentley as told to Sue A. Bentley, Heather Froeschl, Kelley Kay Bowles, Cindy Emmet Smith, David Crane Swarts, Janet Shaub White, Peggy Vincent, Sharon Landeen, Barbara J. Burk, Mary Norton Ross, Renie Burghardt, Denise Nash, Sue A. Bentley, Shirley P. Gumert, Mary Ralph Bradley, Roberta Rhodes, Lanita Bradley Boyd, Lad Moore, Garnet Hunt White, Betty Downs, Rhoda Novak, Joyce Stark, Nancy Gustafson, Sandy Williams Driver, Arthur Bowler, Sharon Cupp Pennington, Marie D. Jones, Carol McAdoo Rehme, Sylvia Nickels, Lynn Ruth Miller, Kimberly A. Porrazzo, Gay Wiggin-Comboy, Elaine Ernst Schneider, CJ Nyman, Stephanie Ray Brown, Gail Balden, Jamie Cope, Polly Camp Kreitz, Marcia E. Brown, Steven Manchester, Bob Rose, Annemarieke Tazelaar, Lois Larrance Requist, Margaret A. Frey, Cindy Robert, and Lester Tucker.
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