Bruce Allen was born in Woburn, Massachusetts, in a place called Button End. It was 1937 and, like his three brothers, he was born at home with only a midwife present. He attended the local two-room school house, graduated from Boston University, and spent years traveling around the world working on Royal Viking Line cruise ships. He retired in San Francisco at 50 and for the next 23 years was a hospice volunteer. During this time, Bruce started to tell Button End stories to his patients—who always asked for more. In this book, he brings you 47 of their favorites.
Come Home With Me to Button End
Volume I
by Bruce Allen
Come Home With Me to Button End
Volume I
by Bruce Allen
Published Nov 23, 2018
199 Pages
Genre: FICTION / Short Stories (single author)
Book Details
Most conversations with storyteller Bruce Allen include tales of the characters met, the values taught and the joys of growing up during the 1930s and ‘40s in his beloved Button End, a long-gone, tight-knit immigrant and blue collar neighborhood on the east side of Woburn, Massachusetts. You’ll meet a cherished teacher who taught much more than the three Rs, a depression-era family that couldn’t quite grow flowers, but ended up with enough vegetables to last the winter, another about a flower garden that didn’t fare too well due to a jealous wife, a visit from a young senatorial candidate named John F. Kennedy, the schoolhouse and the people who taught there, the lessons each generation handed down in memorable ways, and Bruce’s own family with their stories of immigrating to America and leaving their mark on everyone around them. It’s a book you won’t forget about a time that will live on through one man’s stories.