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Stories from a lost time in America Apr 28, 2009
By Wally Weet
"Wallace"
f you are a Southerner of a certain age you know the world of these stories by Lawrence Webb. And if you're a young'un or grew up in the north where horses and wagons and old trucks rattling along dirt roads were few you need to snuggle up to these tales of the not so old West when living in nature was natural and the only technology was a cranky Philco radio or the party line in a friend's house; a telephone line you shared with other people in the neighborhood.
These are the stories that bring us back to Christmases in the Depression when Granddaddy was a boy and Grandma learned to sew and darn socks as a girl instead of hanging with Facebook. These are stories about taking the train to the next town and then walking for miles to get home. You'll learn what it was like to learn to drive when all you had available was a straight shift and no driving instructor at school. You'll experience what it was like before rural electrification when all Grandma had was a coal oil lamp to light her house on Christmas Eve.
These are the Christmas memories of a sophisticated university professor, a writer and a Baptist Pastor of the old school, a man born to a natural gentility and a talent for generosity who writes with a simple crystal clarity empty of pretence. It is the story of Christmas in a lost time in America when the Christian life was lived as Jesus would have wished.
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