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Local Color: The First Five Years |
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"Some of my favorite war stories involve the effort to train a lot of pilots fast during World War II. This wasn't just a program to teach a bunch of young men to solo in a couple of weeks, but an effort to produce highly trained professional pilots to take millions of dollars' worth of hardware, and sometimes several men, into hell and back." Local Color: The First Five Years was published by Haley's Publishing in Athol, Massachusetts in 2003. It includes The Stories of Our Lives, Local Color 1-5, and 36 previously unpublished stories. Authors were people who then resided in Western Massachusetts or who had lived in Western Massachusetts a significant part of their lives but had relocated. Only three authors from the original volumes were not reachable to give permission to have their stories printed in this collection. The stories tell about life in the early twentieth century, including descriptions of wash day, the hurricane and floods of the mid 1930s (which, without Doppler radar, were a complete surprise), holidays with family, World War II (from ration coupons to following a serviceman across the country during basic training) and more. Local Color: The First Five Years is available for $20 (plus $5 shipping and handling) by using PayPal, or by sending a check made out to Local Color to: Local Color It is also available on Amazon.com. |
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