From the “Early Age of Nothing” in 1915 to his retirement
in 1980, Charles McCannon chronicles the people and
places in between: unforgettable schoolmates on Maple
Avenue in rural Illinois, Mousie Carr, Kelly Bishop,
Billy Moberly and Chink Longbreak; the war years in Iowa
and Kansas at the Weather Bureau and Aeronautics
Administration with George Stanton and the Russian
immigrant Lunch; treating animals like Duchess, Mighty
Manfred, Dum-Dum and Delilah the lioness and animal
owners like Thornton Thorpe, Smokey and Charlie Brokaw
of the Towanderosa. Dr. McCannon never forgets a name or
a tale worth telling in his memoirs, STORIES FOR MY
GRANDCHILDREN.
Revisit the one room schoolhouse, a boy’s first car, a
boy’s first plane, aeronautics of the ‘30s and ‘40s,
subsistence farming through veterinary school, the
ecstasies and agonies of golf and all the domesticated
animals and undomesticated humans dealt with, always
with humor and affection, by the County Veterinarian and
Animal Control Supervisor for McLean County, Illinois.
Trade Paperback 266 pages
ISBN: 1-59824-064-1
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