Railwayman's Son: A Plains Family Memoir

ISBN-13: 9780896725577 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 192 str.

Hugh Hawkins; H. Roger Grant

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Hugh Hawkins was seven years old when his father s job with the Rock Island Railroad forced his family to relocate to far western Kansas. Before he turned twelve the family had lived in three Rock Island towns: Herington, Kansas; Goodland, Kansas; and finally El Reno, Oklahoma. Such was the life of a railwayman s son during the Great Depression. In this warm and thoughtful memoir, Hawkins paints a portrait of a middle-class family s traditions and values in the heartland of the 1930s and 1940s. I can't remember the last time I used the words lovely and marvelous to describe a book, but surely they apply to Hugh Hawkins s evocation of a vanished America, a work that is as sure-footed as it is touching. Madeleine Blais, author of Uphill Walkers: Portrait of a Family Hawkins combines the skills of an accomplished historian with the sensitivities of a novelist to construct an engaging and poignant memoir of a Midwestern childhood in the 1930s and the first half of the 1940s. Through his memories and reflections, the author provides an intimate view of his family and a fresh perspective on the powerful forces that shaped the lives of Americans during these tumultuous times. N. Ray Hiner, University of Kansas Charming, entertaining, and well-written Reference & Research Book News A delightful book, made especially good because of the historical accounting of the era Mexia Daily News"