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Between The Creeks
My Sapony Adventures
by Roy A. Cooper Jr.
$19.95 hardcover, 200 pages
Published: September, 2008
ISBN 978-1-59715-054-5
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Roy A. Cooper Jr. set out to tell the stories of growing up in the country in the late 1920s and 1930s. In doing so, he has accomplished much more than that. His collection of tales about growing up “between the creeks” speaks to continuity
of values across generations, values passed down from parents to children to grandchildren.
Readers are transported back to a time when life was hard, but love of friends and family ran deep. Humorous and heartwarming, sad and reflective, these stories enable us to experience the fear of witnessing a fire in the tobacco barn along with the elation of capturing a hive of honeybees. From the humility and appreciation he learned from the young man who helped him find the school outhouse, to the heartbreak of losing his first pet, to the sense of responsibility he developed as his father taught him to take on more of the adult chores round the farm, each of Cooper’s stories brings with it a lesson for both children and adults about values and priorities.
The lessons of love and responsibility, of respect and determination, still resonate
today. Through his storytelling, Roy A. Cooper Jr. has put into words the life lessons he and others in his generation learned, often the hard way, that serve as guideposts throughout life. |
