My Remembers

In 1929 near Plano Texas Eddie Stimpson Jr. weighing 15-1/2 pounds was born to a 19-year-old father and a 15-year-old mother. The boy his two sisters and mother all grew up together with the father sharecropping along the old Preston Road the route used by many freedmen trying to escape Texas after the Civil War. His childhood was void of luxuries but full of country pleasures. The editors have retained the simplicity of Stimpson''s folk speech and spelling patterns allowing the good-natured humility and wisdom of his personality to shine through the narrative.The details of ordinary family life and community survival include descriptions of cooking farming gambling visiting playing doctoring hunting bootlegging and picking cotton as well as going to school to church to funerals to weddings to Juneteenth celebrations.This book will be of extraordinary value to folklorists historians sociologists and anyone enjoying a good story.