Momoirs

F rom the singing sisters in the kitchen to the sex fiend in thewoods a sharp-eyed observant woman recalls the strugglesand joys of growing up during the Depression and starting afamily during World War II. Peggy Kerr grew up in a large family in asmall town Oblong Illinois. This was an age when Dad made shoes andMom baked bread. Peggy remembers pantywaists and button hooks theouthouse the carriage and the hickory stick at school. She alsoremembers child-death and violence: a bootlegger shooting the sheriff ata best friend's home. Her lively tales go on to recount training as a nursein Vincennes Indiana where she met and married George Byers withall the stories of dating dealing with in-laws and raising her own largefamily of kids. This book is filled with the scores of characters she knewand all the pathos and humor of life.</p>