<p>The essays an short stories in this book recount the author&#39;s life growing up in Worthington, Minnesota in the 40&#39;s and 50&#39;s. Discriptive and often humorus, readers follow the author as he lives through World War II and its aftermath as the world around him evolves&nbsp;from the Great Depression. Glimpses of life that quickly vanished after the war are interesting as well as intriguing. The short stories are fiction set in Worthington in the 1950&#39;s and are centered around community events.</p>