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    Our Barn in Summer: Remembering Portersville
    Our Barn in Summer: Remembering Portersville
    Our Barn in Summer: Remembering Portersville
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    Our Barn in Summer: Remembering Portersville

    By Robert Oliver

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    Author's note: I'm in my mid-eighties, and I've just finished writing this collection of poems drawn from my boyhood years. They're not poems about my early life-they're poems from my early life.

    Each poem arose from a separate journey. I went back, became the boy I once was, then took a snapshot of something happening in that place and time.

    The place is a small farming and coal mining community in Western Pennsylvania. The time is my boyhood years, 1929-1937 or thereabouts.

    I'm sending these snapshots to my children and grandchildren. I'm also offering them to you, hoping you'll enjoy them.

    Robert Oliver
    August 2008

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisheriUniverse
    Release dateDec 2, 2008
    ISBN9780595622245
    Our Barn in Summer: Remembering Portersville
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    Robert Oliver

    Robert W. Oliver II is a senior developer and DevOps consultant with over two decades of experience in the field. A truly full-stack programmer, Robert has architected both front-end and back-end systems and designed algorithms used in technologies operating at scales ranging from small to enterprise. With decades of experience working in Python, PHP, Ruby on Rails, JavaScript, C/C++, Rust, and C#, he is fluent in the languages of programming and system design. 

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