Front Porch Sketches

<p>Back when Brenda Bond was growing up in the 1950s life was as simple as Kool-Aid. In <i>Front Porch Sketches</i> she reminisces about what life was like in Cyrus Creek a small rural community near Barboursville West Virginia.</p><p>In this memoir Bond shares stories from her idyllic childhood-about the close-knit community her loving family the joy of country living the value of church and the experiences of attending a small school. She tells of the magical summer evenings on her grandparents' front porch where the family gathered to laugh and visit and of the grandfather who knew a real witch who put curses on things she couldn't have.</p><p><i>Front Porch Sketches</i> paints a portrait of a simple life in simpler times. It shows that the most important things in life-honesty hard work and common sense-cannot be purchased but can be passed through families along with their traditions and their values.</p>