Before television, computers, cell phones, and the internet, information was scarce in the Southeastern Kentucky City of Cumberland in the 1940s and 1950s, so a young child gleaned his information from movies, comic books, word of mouth, and elementary school in an effort to understand life and its meaning. He thought that the movies in particular, which he dearly loved, were the portrayals of real life itself. His understandings and misunderstandings, his adventures as Superman, Batman, and Tarzan, and his thoughts on everything from girls to politics and religion will put a smile on your...
Before television, computers, cell phones, and the internet, information was scarce in the Southeastern Kentucky City of Cumberland in the 1940s and 1...
From the mid-1950s through 1961, a young teenager was coming of age in an era that witnessed the advent of Rock and Roll music, a revolution in clothing styles, the maturation of television, the explosion of pop culture, the automobile craze, and dramatic changes in the socio-economic fabric of the United States. Despite the rapidity of all that was happening just prior to reaching the awkward age of his teen years, girls, sex, parties, his raging hormones, school, his infatuation with the beautiful Leslie Goodman, his eighth grade teacher, and the never-ending search for gratification drove...
From the mid-1950s through 1961, a young teenager was coming of age in an era that witnessed the advent of Rock and Roll music, a revolution in clothi...
