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Skating on Skim Ice: The Life and Times of Richard Andrew Gartee

By Richard Gartee
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By Richard Gartee
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What can Dick Gartee show us about thriving in challenging times?

From the Roaring Twenties to the age of smartphones, Dick faces tribulations and joys with morality, humor, and humility. Elements of daily life that seemed ordinary to Dick are inconceivable to young people today.

  • During the Great Depression, the only hockey puck in the neighborhood slides onto thin skim-ice and nine-year-old Dick heroically skates after it.
  • When his father leaves his mother for another woman, plucky thirteen...

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