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Yes, Missouri, There Really Is a Bootheel

Growing Up In The Bootheel

by Clyde J Faries

Yes, Missouri, There Really Is a Bootheel
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Yes, Missouri, There Really Is a Bootheel

Growing Up In The Bootheel

by Clyde J Faries

Published Dec 10, 2013
52 Pages
Genre: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs



 

Book Details

Life Between The Levees: Growing Up In The Bootheel


I grew up in a frontier society, along with those who, like my father, had come from neighboring states to try to make a new life in this land of black gumbo and sandy loam, bordered by the St. Francis and Mississippi Rivers. They came to tame the land and make it their own, and took pride in facing the worst that nature could throw at them. I have written this book to let others know of the struggles, sorrows, and joys shared by day laborers and sharecroppers during the twenties and thirties in the Missouri Bootheel that I remember and still love.

 

About the Author

Clyde J Faries

Clyde Faries received his PhD in Rhetoric and Public Address from the University of Missouri, and retired as a Professor and Chair of the Department of Communication at Western Illinois University. He served terms as President of the Georgia Speech Association, the Illinois Speech and Theatre Association, and the Missouri Folklore Society. Retirement allowed him to spend 1991 and 1994 in Changsha, Hunan, China, teaching at the National University of Defence Technology. His life outside the classroom included writing and directing “Mystery” plays for Elderhostels, British and American folk music, pickle ball, and golf. He now lives in the retirement community of Terre du Lac.