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Rainy days and starry nights : growing up in the South Texas Brush Country
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Rainy days and starry nights : growing up in the South Texas Brush Country

Author: Lois Zook Wauson
Publisher: San Antonio : Maverick, ©2003.
Edition/Format:   Book : Biography : English
Summary:
Depression and drought did not make it easy for a large family on a small South Texas farm in the mid-twentieth century. Lawrence Zook tried cotton, corn, peanuts, even black-eyed peas on his 100 sandy acres near Floresville. His family survived, though he tended to be disagreeable when it didn't rain--which seemed to be most of the time. Lois Zook Wauson, the oldest of Lawrence and Bertie Lee's eight children, does  Read more...
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Genre/Form: Biography
Named Person: Lois Zook Wauson
Material Type: Biography, Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Lois Zook Wauson
ISBN: 1893271307 9781893271302
OCLC Number: 52876335
Description: 103 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Contents: Rainy days were the best days --
Saturdays on the farm --
The day my parents eloped --
The old black cast iron pot --
Sister Agatha Linn --
Christmas on the farm --
Starting school in August --
Winter days at Kasper School. --
My eighth birthday --
Summer days in the country --
1930, Bertie Lee's best year --
The day I ran away from home --
The Arcadia Theater --
Daddy was a democrat --
A football Christmas --
Peanut Festival time --
My best friend Crystal --
Sam, the last one --
Friday night in South Texas --
Saturday night at the dance halls --
Sports and softball dreams --
Leaving home at seventeen --
Days of radio --
Life on Trudell Drive --
1956 was a tough year --
Automobiles and buses and walking --
The week after Kennedy was shot --
A baby gets very sick --
Going back to Kasper School --
Fifty years is a long time.
Responsibility: Lois Zook Wauson.
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Depression and drought did not make it easy for a large family on a small South Texas farm in the mid-twentieth century. Lawrence Zook tried cotton, corn, peanuts, even black-eyed peas on his 100 sandy acres near Floresville. His family survived, though he tended to be disagreeable when it didn't rain--which seemed to be most of the time. Lois Zook Wauson, the oldest of Lawrence and Bertie Lee's eight children, does not flinch from reporting the difficult aspects of this life, which casts into greater relief her telling of everyday pleasures and triumphs.

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