The Houses of Cleburne County: Memoir of a Southern Boyhood - Paperback

In this collection of vivid, true stories, Houses of Cleburne County, William Carroll Moore, the son of an Arkansas farm family, offers a first-hand account of how Cleburne County families and individuals met the challenge of the changing times, from the great depression through World War II. He started school in a one-room schoolhouse, participated in his family's struggle to survive, and at the age of ten, migrated with his family to the Central Valley of California where their next struggle was to start a new life. The stories bring the reader right into the Southern lifestyle with humor and insightful anecdotes.