Did you grow up in the Fifties or Sixties? Some of our experiences then were amusing, others were frightening, but they were always interesting. This book shares the adventures of a black boy who grew up in a small college town in the American South during that period and who thoroughly enjoyed it. By means of a series of anecdotes, fifty in all, the author chronicles his experiences during that period.
Those experiences range from being ordered by his second-grade teacher to track down and bring back to school an errant fellow student to being suspended himself in junior high school and enjoying a three-day adventure as a result; from painful and embarrassing attempts to learn to slow dance to encountering in young adulthood a young ex-schoolmarm with an aggressive leg; from efforts to learn Freudian psychology to get girls to playing football for the same reason; from serenading a woman who resembled a bear to being struck by lightning in a tobacco barn--could there be a connection?
Read also of the author's never-ending difficulties in meeting the curfew his dad set, and his experiences the night he was locked out. All in all, this book illustrates what a successful, happy childhood is supposed to be all about.
