Growing Up Country

  • Growing Up Country: Memories of a Country Boy
    By Michael McCormick

    Taint nothing is another phrase I heard often as a child, be gone with ye, come hither, smartin' up, cowlick in your hair, keep travelin', forty rod. White lighten, taters, chick peas, mater, raven-haired, darn it, dumber that a rock, ...

  • Growing up Country: A Hard Row to Hoe
    By Arthur Ferrell Wilson

    freeing up the fourth member of the hauling crew. At first, he struggled to keep up until his strength increased. ... Those tiny fibers, which grow at the base of each oat seed, feel like itching power upon the skin, especially inside ...

  • Growing Up Country: Memories of an Iowa Farm Girl
    By Carol Bodensteiner

    In Growing Up Country: Memories of an Iowa Farm Girl, Carol Bodensteiner tells the stories of a happy childhood growing up on a family-owned dairy farm in the middle of America in the 1950s, a time when a family could make a good living on ...

  • Growing Up Country: What Makes Country Life Country
    By Charlie Daniels

    In a collection of essays, reminscences, and reflections, popular country music and southern rock legends share their thoughts on how country music has shaped and influenced their lives.

  • Growing Up Country: What Makes Country Life Country
    By Charlie Daniels

    What Makes Country Life Country Charlie Daniels. Lee. Greenwood. Lee Greenwood's rise to stardom came the old-fashioned way—through hard work and lots of it. Never doubting he was going to be a singer, Lee even missed his own high school ...

  • Growing up Country
    By Sonny Mullins

    Growing up Country

  • Growing Up Country: A Demlow Family History
    By Carl W. Demlow

    ... Grandpa Moeller came to live with us when I was nine. I never had a problem having him live with us, but I have ... stones and throw them at Grandpa.” After arming ourselves with little stones from along the road, we snuck around the ...