With humor and zest for life, Eddie Melin relates stories spanning the ninety-six beginning in 1912. One reviewer said that reading his anecdotes is like having a good cup of coffee with an old friend. The stories reflect the best America has to offer--hunting rabbits in the Missouri countryside, love and laughter during the Depression, an exploding keg of home brew in a college apartment, a cherished Christmas party for war orphans in France, and fighting literary censorship. Eddie's remembrances of life as a musician in New York in the 30's and as a morale officer for an army hospital in...