High Water

<p>Richard and his two best friends—Ed and Bob—had it all figured out when they left their homes in Kennebunkport Maine for the warmer climes of Daytona Beach Florida.</p><p>The high schoolers had realized that their parents knew nothing. They could surely make their own decisions.</p><p>In High Water Spitz recalls that fateful trip in the 1950s when gasoline was seventeen cents a gallon good hamburgers were a quarter and segregation was commonplace. While he enjoyed many adventures the boys eventually returned home.</p><p>Spitz’s father however had not changed and without warning he’d often yell and hit his wife. Spitz’s mother reacted as though it were all part of the routine.</p><p>Desperate for money and with no allowance after having run away Spitz and his friends hit upon a creative way to earn cash: They’d kill deer and sell carcasses to men who had pretended to go hunting but were really fooling around on their wives or playing cards and couldn’t return home empty handed.</p><p>Spitz looks back at a time long gone sharing life lessons in this coming-of-age story that made him the man he is today.</p>