Bacon Grease & Baseball
Charlie Payne remembers a coming-of-age summer in Bacon Grease & Baseball. He developed an enduring passion for baseball, playing it, reading about it, and talking about it with new friends, old and young. He learned to love Gramby's buttermilk biscuits, black-eyed peas, and bacon, lots of bacon. He found joy in reading, singing, investigating Gramby's woods and a creek, and dreaming about places and life outside his personal world. He discovered girls. How was a boy influenced by a grandmother, new friends playing baseball, adults with time to share with a young boy, and a new environment?
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Bacon Grease & Baseball
Charlie Payne remembers a coming-of-age summer in Bacon Grease & Baseball. He developed an enduring passion for baseball, playing it, reading about it, and talking about it with new friends, old and young. He learned to love Gramby's buttermilk biscuits, black-eyed peas, and bacon, lots of bacon. He found joy in reading, singing, investigating Gramby's woods and a creek, and dreaming about places and life outside his personal world. He discovered girls. How was a boy influenced by a grandmother, new friends playing baseball, adults with time to share with a young boy, and a new environment?
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Bacon Grease & Baseball

Bacon Grease & Baseball

by John S. Viccellio
Bacon Grease & Baseball

Bacon Grease & Baseball

by John S. Viccellio

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Overview

Charlie Payne remembers a coming-of-age summer in Bacon Grease & Baseball. He developed an enduring passion for baseball, playing it, reading about it, and talking about it with new friends, old and young. He learned to love Gramby's buttermilk biscuits, black-eyed peas, and bacon, lots of bacon. He found joy in reading, singing, investigating Gramby's woods and a creek, and dreaming about places and life outside his personal world. He discovered girls. How was a boy influenced by a grandmother, new friends playing baseball, adults with time to share with a young boy, and a new environment?

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781543974454
Publisher: BookBaby
Publication date: 06/07/2019
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 174
File size: 700 KB

About the Author

John S. Viccellio published Guess What's in My Garden! In 2014. He wrote a monthly garden column for ten years, was a contributing writer for Carolina Gardener Magazine, and is a Master Gardener. His blog, A Walk in the Garden, has reached readers in over 140 countries and can be seen at johnsviccellio.com. He served 24 years in the U. S. Navy and worked as a computer systems project manager in industry. He and his wife live in Mathews, NC. He has a BA in Economics from Randolph-Macon College and MSA in Personnel Management from George Washington University.

Table of Contents

The Invitation 1

1 Coldbrook Field 3

2 Bacon Grease 9

3 The Woods and the Creek 14

4 The Silver 21

5 Gravely's Drugstore 26

6 Aunt Bell 35

7 Tweenlight 43

8 Judge Tacitus Law 46

9 Eloise Patterson 49

10 Mayor Wallace 54

11 Saturday at the Movies 55

12 Buttermilk Biscuits 58

13 Sadie and Ella Whiteside 62

14 Harley Wimbush 68

15 Radio 72

16 Virgil May field 77

17 Simon Parker's Horse Show 80

18 Naomi Parish 87

19 Airplanes 89

20 Mrs. Haymore's Porch 97

21 Arthur Willard 100

22 In This Family 104

23 Revival 109

24 Peach Ice Cream 113

25 Handin' Leaves 117

26 Girls' Choice 124

27 Homer Benson 129

28 Abraham Sparks 131

29 Nadine Pruitt 136

30 Hesters 139

31 Chickie Frye 143

32 Hargrove 148

33 The Thimble 151

34 Thomas Rylee 154

35 Lane Loudermilk Payne 157

36 Gramby's Words to Live By 162

37 Elizabeth Springer Hester Payne 1890-1986 164

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