Fond Memories of Bygone Days (Or How I Learned to Slow Dance)

Did you grow up in the Fifties or Sixties? Some of our experiences then were amusing, others were frightening, but they were always interesting. This book shares the adventures of a black boy who grew up in a small college town in the American South during that period and who thoroughly enjoyed it. By means of a series of anecdotes, fifty in all, the author chronicles his experiences during that period.

Those experiences range from being ordered by his second-grade teacher to track down and bring back to school an errant fellow student to being suspended himself in junior high school and enjoying a three-day adventure as a result; from painful and embarrassing attempts to learn to slow dance to encountering in young adulthood a young ex-schoolmarm with an aggressive leg; from efforts to learn Freudian psychology to get girls to playing football for the same reason; from serenading a woman who resembled a bear to being struck by lightning in a tobacco barn--could there be a connection?

Read also of the author's never-ending difficulties in meeting the curfew his dad set, and his experiences the night he was locked out. All in all, this book illustrates what a successful, happy childhood is supposed to be all about.