The first four short stories are based on actual events that occurred in the life of the author when he was a boy growing up in the waterfront district of his hometown, Mobile, Alabama ."The Yellow Plum Tree" or (A Pocket Full of Scuppernongs) is a poignat story about an aging Greek emigrant and a young boy coming of age and learning about life, viewed from his favorite secret place, The Yellow Plum Tree. His neighborhood was made up of many emigrants...