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• catalog abstract ""In this account, Joel Vance recreates what it was like for a city kid to have his life changed almost entirely when he is transplanted from his Chicago birthplace to his father's home country in rural Missouri - where basketball was the major social event and a night out might be a trip to the burger joint in town." "While Vance writes about his relatives and their roots in Missouri and Wisconsin, his focus is on his growing-up years in the late 1940s and early 1950s. The anguish of adolescence is detailed, but lightened with Vance's special skill for humor. Dating, French kissing, drinking, hog castration, and vocational agriculture are just a few of the experiences that Vance recalls. His comical encounters with the local citizenry, his social misadventures, and his fumbling exploits on the high school basketball and baseball teams are interwoven with reflections on weightier matters, such as the mismanagement of the Missouri River and its wetlands by the Corps of Engineers. He shares his emotions, his dreams, and the realities of his high schools days, capturing the essence of the experiences of many who lived in the Midwest at midcentury." "Although Vance's writing is funny - sometimes laugh-out-loud funny - there are poignant moments, too, when the realities of life and death are immediate and personal. Any reader from a small-town background will identify with Vance's memories, and most city readers will understand Vance's confusion in coping with the move from Chicago to rural Missouri. Taking the reader back to a time when life was simpler and days seemed longer, this recollection of coming of age in a small Missouri town will provide hours of enjoyment."--Jacket.".
• catalog contributor b11951272.
• catalog coverage "Dalton (Mo.) Biography.".
• catalog coverage "Missouri Social life and customs.".
• catalog created "c2000.".
• catalog date "2000".
• catalog date "c2000.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "c2000.".
• catalog description ""In this account, Joel Vance recreates what it was like for a city kid to have his life changed almost entirely when he is transplanted from his Chicago birthplace to his father's home country in rural Missouri - where basketball was the major social event and a night out might be a trip to the burger joint in town."".
• catalog description ""While Vance writes about his relatives and their roots in Missouri and Wisconsin, his focus is on his growing-up years in the late 1940s and early 1950s. The anguish of adolescence is detailed, but lightened with Vance's special skill for humor. Dating, French kissing, drinking, hog castration, and vocational agriculture are just a few of the experiences that Vance recalls. His comical encounters with the local citizenry, his social misadventures, and his fumbling exploits on the high school basketball and baseball teams are interwoven with reflections on weightier matters, such as the mismanagement of the Missouri River and its wetlands by the Corps of Engineers.".
• catalog description "He shares his emotions, his dreams, and the realities of his high schools days, capturing the essence of the experiences of many who lived in the Midwest at midcentury." "Although Vance's writing is funny - sometimes laugh-out-loud funny - there are poignant moments, too, when the realities of life and death are immediate and personal. Any reader from a small-town background will identify with Vance's memories, and most city readers will understand Vance's confusion in coping with the move from Chicago to rural Missouri. Taking the reader back to a time when life was simpler and days seemed longer, this recollection of coming of age in a small Missouri town will provide hours of enjoyment."--Jacket.".
• catalog description "Me and Al Capone -- Down Home -- The Gun -- Moving South -- Little Town Dying -- The Big Radio -- The Three Friends -- Tampering with Religion -- The Game of Summer -- The Nazi and the Hell Machine -- Dating in the Dark Ages -- The Making of a Non-Farm Boy -- Pals -- Winding Down.".
• catalog extent "165 p. :".
• catalog identifier "0826213073 (alk. paper)".
• catalog issued "2000".
• catalog issued "c2000.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "Columbia : University of Missouri Press,".
• catalog spatial "Dalton (Mo.) Biography.".
• catalog spatial "Missouri Dalton (Mo.)".
• catalog spatial "Missouri Dalton Region.".
• catalog spatial "Missouri Social life and customs.".
• catalog subject "977.8/25 B 21".
• catalog subject "Authors, American 20th century Biography.".
• catalog subject "CT275.V216 A3 2000".
• catalog subject "Country life Missouri Dalton (Mo.)".
• catalog subject "Country life Missouri Dalton Region.".
• catalog subject "Vance, Joel M., 1934- Childhood and youth.".
• catalog tableOfContents "Me and Al Capone -- Down Home -- The Gun -- Moving South -- Little Town Dying -- The Big Radio -- The Three Friends -- Tampering with Religion -- The Game of Summer -- The Nazi and the Hell Machine -- Dating in the Dark Ages -- The Making of a Non-Farm Boy -- Pals -- Winding Down.".
• catalog title "Down home Missouri : when girls were scary and basketball was king / Joel M. Vance.".
• catalog type "text".