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Cabbages and Kings
Cabbages and Kings
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Len spent his formative years playing on the streets of Baltimore. Those streets were seldom paved and they teemed with horses, carriages, and manure. Sanitation was poor and medicine crude by todays standards. Orphans abounded and there were no laws to protect the innocent. Life was rarely just or fair but to a child it was almost always fun. He watched the ships coming and going in the harbor; clipper ships, steam ships, later submarines and ocean-going liners. He saw Buffalo Bills Wild West Show and he survived the Spanish Influenza. He partied through the Roaring Twenties, lost all his money in the crash of 29 and eked out a living during the Depression. He saw his son off to war and scoffed along with the rest of the country at those early television shows.


At his mothers urging he moved to Altoona, Pennsylvania where he bought a home, raised a family, and became a part of the life of that community. Railroads were at the peak of their prosperity when he began to work for the Pennsylvania Railroad and he was still there when the glory of the railroads began to wane.


His story is one of an ordinary man witnessing extraordinary times as the world underwent the most dramatic social, political, and technological changes in history.


This is his story. It is a tale of love and laughter.


LanguageEnglish
PublisherAuthorHouse
Release dateJul 12, 2006
ISBN9781467081030
Cabbages and Kings
Author

Lila Strebeck Wright

Growing up in Pennsylvania during the hectic forties and fifties was very different than what the youth of today are experiencing. Life was slower, people were friendlier, more polite, and the world as a whole was a lot more naïve. This is a tale of one family and their adventures and even though Lila is the narrator she figures as only a small part of the whole. After the chaos of raising five children she thought life would be quiet and serene but such has not proven to be the case. Having lived in nine different states she and her husband now operate a business in Garland, Texas, where they reside along with two really big, really dumb Great Danes. (Lila privately suspects they are actually members of the Blue Collar Comedy team dressed in dog suits.) Although she has had several articles published in national magazines and in the Dallas Morning News she had never harbored secret yearnings to write a book. Even now she is amazed to realize she has done just that. Lila has an avid interest in history and is something of a trivia buff so it comes as no surprise to discover this book is packed with historical trivia. Being a real wacko when it comes to Christmas Lila spends a good portion of each year gathering materials and setting up holiday displays. Then she and her long-suffering husband invite the neighbors in to enjoy the festivities. Her pet charity is the Ronald McDonald House in Dallas, where each December she is fortunate enough to be able to help set up the Christmas decorations for the families who stay there.

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