Tales of a Farmboy: The Life and Times of Clarence Salmon

Tales of a Farmboy isnt just the life story of a farmer and his struggles (though it is that too). It warmly relates the peaks and valleys in one mans life told with a great depth of feeling and with great humility and humor. Clarence Salmon paints pictures with his stories and poems and the reader can almost smell the scents and hear the sounds that his vivid descriptions evoke. This book is filled with first-person accounts of a simpler time when going to church meant hitching up the horse and buggy when Christmas was truly a homegrown affair and where children could actually go sledding down the middle of Allen Hill Road without danger. It describes the authors firsthand experiences with the traumatic events of the times such as the stock market crash of 1929 when he was a twenty-year-old bellhop at a well-to-do Florida hotel as well as the destruction of the 1938 hurricane - The Storm of Storms. Together Clarence and Donna Salmon have created a wonderful reading experience which follows one mans journey from cradle to old age using love faith determination strength of character perseverance and a great sense of humor. A true piece of Americana.