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When Grandpa Delivered Babies and Other Ozarks Vignettes de Benjamin G. Rader

When Grandpa Delivered Babies and Other Ozarks Vignettes

Autor Benjamin G. Rader
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 17 mar 2024
People in the Ozarks have long told humorous vignettes that make sense of triumph and tragedy, relay family and local history, and of course entertain. Benjamin G. Rader’s memoir offers a loving portrait of the Ozarks of his youth, where his grandfather midwifed babies and his great uncle Jerry Rader laughed so hard at one of his own stories that he choked to death on a pork chop. As he reveals the Ozarks of the 1930s through 1950s, Rader dispels the myths of the region’s people as isolated and sharing a single set of values and behaviors. He also takes readers inside the life of the extended Rader family and its neighborhoods, each of which drew on storytelling to strengthen resolve in lives roiled by change, economic depression, and the shift of daily life from the country to the city. An alluring blend of remembering and reflection, When Grandpa Delivered Babies and Other Ozarks Vignettes provides a vivid portrait of a fading time.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780252087844
ISBN-10: 0252087844
Pagini: 160
Ilustrații: 21 black & white photographs
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.25 kg
Ediția:First Edition
Editura: MO – University of Illinois Press

Recenzii

“How many celebrated American historians began life in a remote log cabin in the Depression-era Ozarks? Ben Rader's probably the only one. It may start in territory occupied by stereotype and romance, but his story humbly and skillfully illuminates the lives of common Ozarkers navigating the furious changes of the mid-twentieth century. A terrific collection of vignettes.”--Brooks Blevins, author of A History of the Ozarks, Vol. 3: The Ozarkers

Notă biografică

Benjamin G. Rader is James L. Sellers Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln. His books include Down on Mahans Creek: A History of an Ozarks Neighborhood and Baseball: A History of America’s Game, fourth edition.

Cuprins

Preface
Acknowledgments
Part I. The Clear, Cold Water of Mahans Creek
  1. “You’d Better Treat Her Right!”
  2. I Was Born in a Veil
  3. Learning the Hard Way
  4. The Artifacts of Shannon County’s Golden Age
  5. Every Child Needs a Grandpa
  6. When Uncle Hub Put Down the Great Delaware School Uprising of 1941
  7. “Yes, and Alta Won’t Like It Either”
  8. The Preacher’s Complaint
  9. “Come ’n’ Get It”
  10. Family Keepsakes
  11. “My ___, She Is Holding a Python!”
  12. When I Kissed My Sister
Part II. The People There Even Drank Water from Cisterns
  1. The Hilltop of the Dead
  2. You Can’t Take the Country Out of the Country Boy
  3. Walking to School
  4. When Miss Delores Read Us a Novel
  5. The Punishment of Curley Pliler
  6. When We Danced Naked in the Rain
  7. How Harry Caray Punctured Our Innocence
  8. “Let There Be Light”
  9. An Ozarks Book Burning
Part III. “I Would Choose to Live in Town or beside a County Road”
  1. An Ozarks Rite of Passage
  2. The Green Beans Were Raw!
  3. The Art of Ozarks Bullfighting
  4. “Mom, We Shot Old Polly!”
  5. The Failure of the Great Multiflora Rose Experiment
  6. When Mom Awoke to the Roar of a Chain Saw
  7. How Clarence Renfro Failed to Make His Case
  8. And Barbara Said That He Looked like Mickey Mantle
  9. Thank You, Mr. Fernetti”
  10. “I’m from Missouri, and You Have Got to Show Me”
  11. “I Must Go to the Eleanor”
  12. A Day in the Life of a Jig Builder
Part IV. Are We in the Ozarks Now?
  1. “And I Was the Only Sober One in the Group”
  2. Barbara Learns about High Finance in the Ozarks
  3. I Took Her Hands in Mine
Epilogue: The Ozarks of the American Imagination
Notes