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In the time of prohibition, out of ignorance and greed, many sorrowful things happened to the immigrants of Slavic countries who tried to emigrate to the USA. This is a story of hope, perseverance, and survival reflected within the hardships of those long-ago days.

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Publié par	Austin Macauley Publishers LLC
Date de parution	06 janvier 2023
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781649791481
Langue	English

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T he R oadside B oys
O ne S ummer i n V aldosta
E lizabeth F ain
A ustin M acauley P ublishers
2023-01-06
The Roadside Boys About the Author Dedication Copyright Information © Acknowledgment “Rose on the Road” The Suitcase Part I Part II
About the Author
E. Fain is a postwar baby who has overcome many of life’s challenges. She developed an interest in literature and writing at an early age, and credits this to many good teachers along the way.
Dedication
For my grandmother.
She kept me in for I was a sickly child.
Copyright Information ©
Elizabeth Fain 2023
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Any person who commits any unauthorized act in relation to this publication may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages.
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, places, events, locales, and incidents are either the products of the author’s imagination or used in a fictitious manner. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental.
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Fain, Elizabeth
The Roadside Boys
ISBN 9781649791474 (Paperback)
ISBN 9781649791481 (ePub e-book)
Library of Congress Control Number: 2022920688
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First Published 2023
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Acknowledgment
This story is for my grandmother, who was always kind to me and always caring.
When I was seven-eight years old, I spent a lot of time in Valdosta Georgia, and later, St. Simon’s Island where she had moved to. Most of this story is dedicated to her and all the wonderful things she told me. Especially, the wacky visit she once had to the Valdosta jail after a man returned her tapestry. They threw her out on her ear, by the way. I will always miss her. The rest, I obtained from a friend in Mexico, and, of course, my own imagination.
Arid, dry, and dusty might describe Valdosta Georgia in 920 and 1921, but hunger was more and more of a pastime, and scratching the earth for sustenance was commonplace. People were shot over as small a thing as a vegetable patch. As well as could be expected the last thing people looked for was a fruit stand and vegetable patch that raised on well-oiled circular metal hinges at the grassy verge of the new highway to Florida. Most times it didn’t go up beyond the height of peering binoculars looking through the sod and roots, always watching for something to the north.
In about May of 1921, with the first stock market crash to worry about, cruelty and starvation around the next corner, there were two young brothers of Russian extraction and their one friend, A Mexican named Manny. The three had developed a hatred of homegrown produce being healthy boys and not stupid they saw no need for such commodities and devised a plan to fight back. They used old tools of cast iron and wood planks found in a foreclosed home next door, plus parts and hinges from the town dump.
The distantly approaching but ever-encroaching invention of the automobile had begun slowly to crawl towards Florida; perhaps to share the carried treasure, the boys believed. Putting the clubhouse together was a daring process that took a few months of hard work, most of it spent digging the patch near the highway about six feet deep.