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Richard L. Carley
Richard L. Carley wrote this book for his children and grandchildren so they would know about his life while growing up on Sharon Mountain in Sharon, Connecticut. It portrays his f...view moreRichard L. Carley wrote this book for his children and grandchildren so they would know about his life while growing up on Sharon Mountain in Sharon, Connecticut. It portrays his fondest memories as well as the many things that have changed on Sharon Mountain over the past 70 years.
The author came to Sharon (his father’s hometown) in 1942 when he was five years old. Almost immediately he began a 17-year journey he would never forget. This is the period he writes about. Much of his account is the history of the farms on Sharon Mountain as they were in the 1940s and 1950s. The author dissects each farm family on where and how they lived, where they came from, and the love and working relationship they had with each other. He also shows all the farm homes as they exist today.
“Dick Carley’s grandfather, John Carley, built many of the farm houses and barns on Sharon Mountain, and Dick grew up in one of them. He recounts in exquisite detail, what that life was like, how the dairy farmers moved from horse power to tractors and why federal mandates put so many of them out of business. In Growing Up On the Farm, A Sharon Mountain Story, Dick has recaptured a valuable skein of Sharon History, that would otherwise have been lost. The town owes him a vote of thanks.”
Priscilla L. Buckley
Former Senior Editor of the National Review
"Dick Carley’s tale of growing up in Sharon, Connecticut tells us a lot about the American spirit. By the age of ten he had twice been given his last rites by a Catholic priest, survived the whooping cough and lost part of a leg in a farm accident. Yet, Dick never turned bitter and managed to keep his sense of boyhood wonder about a place where neighbors were generous and horses still pulled farm equipment through the fields. His account is a valuable addition to the history of Sharon, a classic New England town made all the better by people like Dick."
Brian Ross
Chief Investigative Correspondent ABC Newsview less