You've Got to Start Young: a Memoir

By Steven E. Hulme

Memories of growing up in Iowa during the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s. Born on a rented farm, the author relates some happy, sad, funny, and scary events from his childhood, including life on the farm, his house burning down, the move into town, a remarkable school, adolescence, and his adventures along the way.

• Language: English
• Publisher: iUniverse
• Release date: Jan 17, 2013
• ISBN: 9781475968132

Steven E. Hulme

Steven E. Hulme was born in 1934 in Iowa City, Iowa- his family lived on a farm in the midst of the Great Depression. A graduate of the University of Iowa and the General Theological Seminary, he served as an Episcopal priest for thirty-nine years in Iowa and Connectinut. Currently he is executive director of the Karen (of Burma) Emergency Relief Fund Inc. Articles, letters and op-ed pieces by the author have appeared in the New London Day, the Hartford Courant, the Post Road Review, the Lyme Times, the Vintage Voice, and the Episcopalian. He and his wife, Mary, live in East Lyme, Connecticut. They have two grown children.

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