Volume I of "Down on the Farm" is a compilation of columns written by Albert B. Southwick from 1956-1958 for the "Feature Parade" in the Sunday Telegram (Worcester, Massachusetts). This collection of richly detailed essays recounts the author's boyhood growing up on a New England farm in the 1920s and 30s. This revised edition includes over 50 images. Font size: 14 points.

This collection of letters between WWII Navy Pilot Albert B. Southwick and his family back at Maple Hill Farm in Leicester, Massachusetts spans February to June, 1942. Young Albert details his experiences first at the Naval Training Station in Newport, Rhode Island, then at the Naval Air Base Station Service School in Jacksonville, Florida. The entire collection, some of it written in rhyming verse by Albert's father Nathan Marshall Southwick, recalls a bygone era when written correspondence was a carefully crafted art form. Footnotes added by Albert's daughter Martha Jean Southwick...

Mr. Southwick usually focuses on local history, but some of the material in this collection deals with topics of national scope, such as "Abigail Adams - Female Tycoon," or Southwick's "Reflections of Hiroshima"; from competing Roosevelt clans in "Oyster Bay Versus Hyde Park" to "Hawaii and United States Imperialism," Southwick's interests are wide-ranging and insightful. For people who prefer his more local topics, whether Worcester's first toilet, a municipal piggery, or various political shenanigans, Albert Southwick always entertains and informs. Readers of this new volume, like those who...

Young sailor Albert (now 22 years old) details his experiences at US Naval Air Training Stations in Jacksonville FL, Norfolk VA, Moffett Field and Alameda CA, New Orleans and Natchitoches LA. This second volume of his WWII letters to Maple Hill Farm includes over 60 images. Font size: 14 points.

Young sailor Albert (now 23 years old) details his experiences at US Naval Air Training Stations in Natchitoches LA, Athens GA, Milton and Pensacola FL, where he finally "gets his wings." This third volume includes over 60 images. Font size: 14 points.

This fourth volume of Albert Southwicks war letters takes us to the end of the war. Young naval aviation pilot Albert, now 24 years old, writes home from Florida (Jacksonville), Kansas (Hutchinson), Illinois (Chicago), Washington (Seattle and Whidbey Island), Oregon (Grants Pass) and Alaska (the Aleutian Islands: Shemya, Attu and Kodiak). This last volume of WWII letters includes over 55 images. Font size: 14 points."