Lewis H. Carlson was born and raised in Muskegon, Michigan, the
only child of a Jewish father and a Scandinavian mother. It was the
depth of the Great Depression, there was no work, and so-called
"mixed" marriages meant additional pressures on a young couple
unable to survive the hard times.
After the marriage ended in divorce, the young boy lived with
his grandparents while his mother returned to college to get her
teaching degree. Following an insecure childhood, he became an
indifferent student, a frustrated pursuer of the fairer sex, and a
military misfit before eventually achieving reasonable competence
as a fly-fisherman, a lover of animals, and a gently radical
professor of history. He also found a lovely Swedish girl to be his
lifetime companion.
He offers this sage advice in the introduction to his memoir:
"Listen to your inner voices, which are very different than what
passes for truth in our mass-mediated, myth-laden, materialistic
society. Be nostalgic about the future because it belongs to you,
and not to those who demand that you live in a mythical past they
themselves created."
This is his story, told with the humor he employs to stumble
across the hurdles of life.
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