ASIN: B00ACP5B02
Publisher: Intermountain North Publishing
Pages: 118
Life was good but never easy growing up on a pre-Depression North Carolina farm, and it was soon to become not so good and a lot less easy. Follow this teenager, rapidly pushed into manhood, as his father, forced by hard times to abandon nearly everything he owns, takes his two young sons on a 3500 mile search for a greener pasture that never materialized. Though young and not yet full grown, Allie Vannoy was strong, willing and hungry. He was soon to show he had plenty of grit, and even better, an unwavering belief that he was equal to any challenge life or a sadistic boss could lay on him. Allie’s is no gloom and doom tale of struggle and deprivation. He was and still is stubbornly optimistic. When asked at his 100th birthday celebration how he'd managed to live so long, he replied, "I always had a nice car, I got a good woman, and I made sure I had a little fun every day." Here you ...
