With these 33 short stories, author GC Rosenquist recalls what growing up in Lake County, Illinois in the 1970's was like; laugh out-loud, knee-slapping, hyperventilatingly funny Learn the secret that makes Pester Anderson's chickens grow so big, get revenge on an evil ice cream man, explore the depths of Glimmer Pond in a leaky homemade diving helmet, fish with dad at 2am on a freezing Lake Michigan pier, see how high a pair of stilts can go, meet...