My Remembers : : A Black Sharecropper's Recollections of the Depression / / by Eddie Stimpson, Jr. ("Sarge") ; introduction by James W. Byrd ; foreword by Frances Wells ; illustrated by Burnice Breckenridge.
"I grow up a dirt farmer and retired a dirt farmer. Never got rich and didn't want to be. My childhood stomping ground is now concrete, stores and houses. I remember the good times and bad. It was not the money we made but how to stretch that last dime. It was not the wind, rain or snow. I...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Denton, TX : : University of North Texas Press,, 1996. ©1996. |
| Year of Publication: | 1999 1996 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Physical Description: | xxi, 167 p. :; ill. |
| Notes: | Includes index. |
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Table of Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Letter to my grands and your grands and there grands
- My Growing Up Days
- Changes on the Farm
- Famley Problum
- A Vision of What Was
- Famley Life
- Getting a Wife
- Come on Kids, Lets Eat!
- Keep Clean
- Sud Busting Day
- Recration or Play Time
- Medicines
- School Day
- After School Trouble
- Hussling for Survival
- Sending Messages without a Phone
- Domestic Animals
- Hunting Wild Animals
- Dust Storms and Blue Whislers
- Farming
- Fear of Failure
- What Kept Us Going
- Run for Cover
- Jack Rabbit
- Fill Up on the Holy Spirit
- Praise God
- Funral Service
- Troubled Famley Down on the Farm
- Good Time and Bad Time
- A Lonely Mother with the Blues
- Caring for Your Nabor
- Friends
- Bonnie and Clyde
- Millie and Ed Diner
- Just a Thought
- Closing letter to my grands and your grands and there grands
- Appendix A: Family Tree
- Appendix B: Stimpson and Drake Histories
- Index.