Way Back When: Nostalgic Essays of "Growing Up North"
Want to go back in time? Humorist Jerry Harju tells how it was when kids could bring knives to school but not marbles. And what was on the menu when his father was the first stay-at-home dad. Jerry... This description may be from another edition of this product.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0967020581
ISBN13:9780967020587
Release Date:April 2004
Publisher:North Harbor Publishing
Length:136 Pages
Weight:0.65 lbs.
Dimensions:0.5" x 6.9" x 10.1"
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A work of consummate humor and nostalgia
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Way Back When: Nostalgic Essays of "Growing Up North" is a compilation of Jerry Harjus newspaper columns originally published in Upper Michigan's largest newspaper, "Mining Journal", and retelling anecdotal stories of his growing up in a time when kids could bring knives to school but not marbles. Here are recorded Jerry's fond memories of 1940s radio commercials and yesteryear Christmas celebrations. The Great Depression was a time of saving string and tinfoil (long before the concept of "recycling" became a part of the social consciousness), and come Halloween, "trick or treat" was a seriously proclaimed choice with consequences to follow. A work of consummate humor and nostalgia, Way Back When is fun reading for those of us who "remember when" and will prove entertaining and informative for folks of a younger generation for whom these memories are simply stories from a time now long gone.
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