You Can Yell It! Coming of Age in Leeds Iowa

YOU CAN YELL IT! - Coming of Age in Small Town Leeds Iowa 1938-1957. Imagine what it would have been like to live and grow up in a small intimate town where kids went barefoot in summer and explored nature all year long freely swam in farm ponds and rivers attended schools with less than two dozen in their graduation class and as few as three students in a high school class and felt safe for miles around. Also what if it was a place where everybody knew everyone in town you could ride your bike to any destination in town in less than 20 minutes and the local general store sold Tootsie Rolls for 1¢ each? Moreover your family could go fishing for a couple of weeks in Minnesota leave your home unattended and unlocked and come home to find everything undisturbed. It sounds like a magical place and it was. After 7 ½ decades of nostalgic remembrances the author wrote this book to describe the euphoria of growing up in Leeds Iowa a detached part of Sioux City in the middle decades of the 20th century. You Can Yell It! is about a place where life was the epitome of social warmth friendliness fun learning and happiness. Leeds was a blue collar neighborhood about five miles from the city with an enthusiastic spirit rough-hewn sophistication and enthusiasm for the future - and all who shared its energy and vigor still carry memories that warm their hearts. It was then it was real and it IS unforgettable. It is still worth yelling about.