Stories of Civil Bend

Stories of Civil Bend is a charming memoir of a lost time; rural farm life in northern Missouri during the Great Depression and World War II, before electricity and running water, with one room school houses and a sense of community that is sadly a thing of the past. The author, Lee Roy Bruner, the youngest from a family of 15 children, captures in a series of honest, heartwarming stories, what it means, or at least used to mean, to be raised well: "It's all about growing up right." Anyone interested in Americana or rural life in early 20th century America will be well rewarded by reading these stories.