Up on a Hill and Thereabouts, livre ebook

In the 1930s, life for kids tucked away in the quiet woodlands of the Adirondack Mountains was rich with nature and filled with human characters. This captivating memoir contains the recollections of one woman who spent her childhood on the hillsides and in the woods near Ticonderoga. A child's-eye view of days long gone, the book describes a time and place of poverty and hardship tempered by compassion, hope, and humor.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 Lost At 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 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 Reflections Oh My God, Bedbugs Just Another Day at School, or the Joys of Teaching Angelo 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 Thirteen Courtship 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 Fires I Have Known How I Happened Mrs. Rite Special Pal Songs Epilogue