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