Ness City Chronicles (English Edition)

Ness City Chronicles, A Young Boy's Adventures in a 1930's Western Kansas Town, is a heartwarming, and occasionally heartbreaking collection of childhood memories. Each story is a small treasure; a snapshot of the past that delights the reader, yet still manages to illustrate the struggle people faced just to 'get by' in post-Depression America. Although food and jobs are scarce and life is sometimes very hard, the children depicted in this charming memoir still manage to find ways to demonstrate the veracity of the old adage, 'kids will be kids'. Through the adventures and misadventures described by the author, we have a unique perspective of small-town life as seen through the eyes of an imaginative and very industrious child. Along with Donnie, his close friend and co-conspirator, Bill comes up with inventive and often mischievous schemes to keep himself entertained, earn a little pocket change, contribute to his family's needs, and scrounge for extra food -- all while staying one step ahead of his parents and the local authorities. Contemporaries will find Ness City Chronicles funny and sad; nostalgic, yet not overly sentimental. The stories ring true because they are. The author delivers his childhood memoirs in a voice that is sometimes evocative of the dry wit and pathos of Mark Twain; a voice that can only come from a childhood spent in that small Western Kansas town, Ness City.