Research Catalog

Title

A Tennessee childhood / by Ned Webb with Joyce, Holly, Bonnie, Cheryl and Gil.

Author

Webb, Ned C.

Publication

[United States] : BookSurge Publishing, 2009.

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Description

253 pages : portrait; 23 cm

Summary

In this reminiscence on growing up in a small rural community in the 1940s and early 1950s the author tells of the joys of swimming in dammed-up creeks, roaming hills and paying five cents to get into the Saturday night picture show, of simple Christmases where an orange was a treat ... a devoted mother's wonderful desserts ... grandfather's tales of Oklahoma ... father who demanded work but who also gave great freedom and taught his children how to play baseball. In it the author goes from a great-great-grandfather who freed his slaves and fought for the Union to how the family and the town dealt with integration 100 years later. He tells of family struggles during the Great Depression, his father walking 5 miles to hear a radio for the first time, and of the coming of television 30 years later. More than anything else, without being preachy or mawkish about it, this reminiscence is about how three generations of principled men and women affected the lives of their sons and daughters, grandsons and granddaughters, is about bonds of love and affection that spread from generation to generation and from sibling to sibling, and lasted for lifetimes. -- publisher.

Subject

• Tennessee > History
• Tennessee
• Webb family

Genre/Form

History.

Contents

The peddler -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- FAMILY TREES -- W.C. and Martha Webb, Atlas and Bonnie Webb -- Daddy Webb, Granny, dog trials and grandchildren -- Uncle Teak and Aunt Nita, Uncle Jack -- Morgan and Mae Conder, Lorene, Dimple and Hazel -- Daddy Luke and Uncle Pat, Mother and Aunt Nancy -- Uncle Sonny and Aunt Mable, Larry and Gene -- Uncle Henry and Aunt Hazel Stark, Conder and David -- Where we came from -- The Weems family band (1928) -- Early Conder garage (about 1938) -- Back home in Tennessee -- "Us" -- Where we grew up, how we lived life in the '40s and '50s -- "Us" -- The Linden Owls (late 1945 or early 1946) -- The late forties and early fifties baseball, TV, and more -- The farm -- CMA: Columbia Military Academy -- Epilogue.

ISBN

• 1439234531
• 9781439234532

OCLC

• ocn613612697
• 613612697

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library