Two narratives intertwine in The Chenango Kid. One is the personal
story of the author, Roger Miller, who grew up on Chenango Street,
a main artery of the medium-sized industrial city of Binghamton,
New York, in the 1950s. The second is the larger story of the
1950s. Each narrative enlarges upon the other. Many elements make
up the personal: a devastating house fire; a single mother who
liked to work and to frequent taverns; a father, mystified by life,
less devoted to work than to benignly stalking his son; a
half-sister long unknown; a drunken and/or crazy uncle or two; a
boyhood paradise in the hills of Pennsylvania; and a passion for
reading and art. All in all an unconventionally conventional
working-class youth. The Chenango Kid also connects Chenango Street
to the wider world of the Fifties, a vibrant, explosive decade in
art, literature, music, movies, and television making it The Decade
That Never Ends. The popular culture of no other ten-year span in
the century continues to exert its influence as strongly or to be
revived as often as that of the 1950s.
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