Seeing the Roaring Twenties through the Eyes of an Eleven-Year-Old Boy
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"We never lost many days of school. The school was just a short walk from the village. If it got too cold for the teacher to stand at the blackboard, she would gather us around that big stove. She had a special storybook to read. Good stories. She knew where to stop. She would close the book and say we will finish this tomorrow. She had us hooked We could not wait to get back to school to hear the rest of the story.
Springtime was a whirlwind time at school with so much to do. I liked the field trip we took each year to Lilac Hill. It was a long walk up a winding path to a rocky cliff. We would spread our lunch among the lilacs and have a picnic. This year I did not have a lunch, but I was going anyway. Maybe someone would give me a sandwich.
It was a long walk up a steep hill. About halfway up, we stopped to rest. When I got up there, there was a lunch bag beside me. I never did know who gave me that lunch. I was a happy little boy now. I had a lunch to spread out among the lilacs."
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About the Book
For author Ray W. Linnens, the small, mill village of Belmont in North Carolina was a great place to grow up. It gave a kid like him a lot of places to explore, and he never got bored.
In Seeing the Roaring Twenties through the Eyes of an Eleven-Year-old Boy, he shares stories of a range of experiences from his life from school to play to family and more. Linnens tells how everything was good in the 1920s, but it all came crashing down in the thirties. For a young boy, daily life and the adventures that came proved to be a time of great joy and sadness.
This memoir narrates Linnens’ journey through life, offering a retelling of childhood events that shaped this centenarian’s lifelong perseverance through the Roaring Twenties and the Depression era that followed.
About the Author
Ray W. Linnens was born in the 1920s and grew up in a small, mill village in Belmont, North Carolina, and served three years in the Navy during World War II. He married the love of his life and they had more than seventy-seven years together. They have one daughter, two grandchildren, and two great grandchildren. This is Linnens’ second book.