Wayne Easter grew up during the Great Depression; on a small hillside farm in northwest North Carolina. His is the story of all who grew up in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains in earlier times. He describes the work and play, the seasons, the trials and tribulations and the joys of running free in the hills and valleys of home. As he tells it: "If you traveled the foothills of the Blue Ridge in the Nineteen Thirties, you probably met my family...