The Way It Was: A Boyhood Memoir 1934-1948

This book is a memoir of my boyhood, the 14 years between 1934 and 1948, Memory is the way we allow the past to live in the present. But the past is not experienced in a vacuum. Memories have locations in a particular time and particular places. Th is brief memoir is attempt to share my boyhood as shaped by the Great Depression of the 1930’s and the World War II years of the 1940’s. In the writing of these pages it became evident to me that indeed the experiences of my childhood have greatl...