Scuffletown : Adventures of a Boy Growing up In the Rural South

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Summary: He came from a strange land, far, far away
Review: A.T. Hope grew up in another world where there were no video games or cable television, no satellites or ICBMs. In fact, his world had not any television, color or black and white.
Scuffletown is the story of real life in this other world, a world before Sputnikk and men on the moon, before Toyotas and Hondas, Suzukis and Yamahas. This is the story of a young man who grew up with his family with no air-conditioning and the only early warning given for hurricanes was a neighbor with a radio and a voice strong enough to holler out the news just hours before the storm hit.
Hope doesn't try to compare his world to ours, he just tells it as it was -- and that was pretty amazing.