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1-878086-90-1
$11.95 paperback
5 1/2" x 8 1/2"
70 pages black-and-white photographs
Down Home Press
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From the Introduction by
Jerry Bledsoe...
As a boy and a young man, my
old friend Phil Link always admired the eccentric characters in his
hometown of Reidsville, North Carolina, so it wasn't surprising that he
would become one. What might surprise some people who have known Phil
only in that guise, is that underneath it he is a keen and sensitive
observer of small-town life, a man with a novelist's eye and ear, a
poet's heart and soul.
The proof of that lies in the
pages of this all-too-brief memoir. In it, Phil takes us back to the
Reidsville of the 1920s, when he was a boy, growing up in a big white
house on Lindsey Street filled with love and laughter.
He delivers us into a time
when people gathered around the radio for "Lum and Abner" and
"Amos and Andy," when they sat on front porches on summer
evenings and told family stories, when the silent movie theater drew big
crowds with local talent shows, when Saturday was bath night, when
grocers and druggists delivered by bicycle.
With deft, clear prose, Phil
makes his family ours, and Reidsville our hometown. That's all a reader
can ask of the written word. I'd bet that Phil's old college classmate,
the novelist Robert Ruark, himself a moving memoirist (The Old Man
and the Boy), would have been envious of this book.
about the author
Phil Link, a graduate of the University of North Carolina, has been
a pharmacist, a painter, a storyteller, and a newspaper columnist, in
addition to a town character. He and his wife, Peggy, an artist, still
live in Reidsville.
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