During the four decades since Tom Nelson left his hometown of
Fennimore, Wisconsin he has returned countless times. Now he
revisits once again to recount his younger years during the 1940's
and '50s. These were times when in a small Midwestern town farmer
families shopped on Saturday nights while their children went to a
double feature movie. The men folks congregated at the local
billiard parlor and wives sat in parked cars on main street
gossiping with neighbors. It was during the days when youngsters
went to the park during the day for ball games and played nighttime
games of kick-the-can, or hide-and-seek until called home for
bedtime. Those same young people of the radio generation raced home
from school on bicycles to listen to Captain Midnight and Superman
before supper. Then joined their parents in the evenings and
laughed over the likes of Jack Benny and Fibber McGee and Molly. It
was a time when filling stations were full service, comic books
were collected at 10c a copy, Drug Store fountains cokes sold for a
nickel, doctors made house calls and veterans were returning from
the war to march in Memorial Day parades. Tom's book is anecdotal
in short story form, filled with names of friends and acquaintances
as he fondly remembers his favorite people and events. By
substituting the names this book could be the story of anyone's
small town years.
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