Palace in the Fields (Growing up on a Farm)

by Peter Hitt

Overview

PALACE IN THE FIELDS Growing up on a Farm is the firsthand recollections of the youngest member of a family of six, in an organized anecdotal style, who moved from suburbia to a tobacco farm in southern Maryland during a ten-year period in the 1940's and 1950's. The farmhouse turned out to be "Dent's Palace", a former colonial plantation manor that the parents restored to an elegant showplace. The author was six years old when the move occurred. Farm play and work activities as well as interaction with the unforgettable characters who were their parents, siblings, neighbors, acquaintances, and friends , provides a unique slice of Americana which probably does not exist anymore.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940044616929
Publisher:	Peter Hitt
Publication date:	05/22/2013
Sold by:	Smashwords
Format:	eBook
File size:	157 KB
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Peter Hitt has worked on this book and other stories of his youth for a number of years. After graduating from military school, he earned a degree in electrical engineering from Georgia Tech and was commissioned as a U.S. Army Signal Corps officer during the Vietnam War. He and his newlywed wife spent a year in upcountry Thailand. After active duty, he worked as an aerosystems engineer in Ft. Worth, Texas while attending Texas Christian University at night. After obtaining an MBA degree, he spent several years building and managing cable television systems in Maine and Florida. Three grown married children have successful careers and have so far produced three healthy grandchildren.
Peter currently lives in the Jacksonville, FL area with the same wife of 48 years who operate a Mom and Pop home inspection business.