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On Leatherwood Creek: Dutchtown Boys Grew up in Poverty and Fought Ww Ii as Teenagers to Take Their Place in the Greatest Generation
On Leatherwood Creek: Dutchtown Boys Grew up in Poverty and Fought Ww Ii as Teenagers to Take Their Place in the Greatest Generation
On Leatherwood Creek: Dutchtown Boys Grew up in Poverty and Fought Ww Ii as Teenagers to Take Their Place in the Greatest Generation
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On Leatherwood Creek: Dutchtown Boys Grew up in Poverty and Fought Ww Ii as Teenagers to Take Their Place in the Greatest Generation

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Life in the poverty of the Great Depression prior to World War II was a serious time, which today's generation can only imagine and could not endure. However, I have used the short story format, humor, and a sixth-grade vocabulary in many stories to encourage reading for ages twelve to ninety. The names of my boyhood pals represent many of my childhood pals, and stories are based on real events. My sketches and photos help set the scene for each short story, which stands alone but is more or less in order of events and seasons. The sketches also signify that I qualify as a starving artist.

The twenty-five percent unemployment in our community led to many people living on the edge of starvation. Families lived in houses without electricity, water, or central heating, and their lives were not complicated by bathrooms, air conditioning, television, computer games, or cell phones. The outhouse was on the alley, and house water came from well pumps or a neighbor's faucet. Schools and parents demanded strict discipline, and education was important. Most families were striving to survive and rear their children to be law-abiding citizens. Children spent time in the fresh air, organized their own games, and roamed the streets, fields, or woodlands. However, they were assigned home chores and expected to contribute to the family. The Greatest Generation saved our country and the freedom we have enjoyed for three-quarters of a century.

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PublisherAuthorHouse
Release dateOct 14, 2016
ISBN9781524643072
On Leatherwood Creek: Dutchtown Boys Grew up in Poverty and Fought Ww Ii as Teenagers to Take Their Place in the Greatest Generation
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T/Sgt. James Lee Hutchinson EdS

The author holds three Indiana University degrees and is retired from 37 years as an elementary teacher, Principal and Assistant to the Superintendent. Fifty year Mason, Rotary Paul Harris Award, Presbyterian Elder. Hutch uses the short story format and self-drawn sketches to encourage readers from twelve to ninety-six. His goal is to honor those who served to save our Country’s freedom and to educate the present generations. T/Sgt. James Lee Hutchinson is a WW II Eighth Air Corps veteran of twenty missions as a teenage B-17 Radio Operator/ gunner. The ninety- seven year-old educator has published six WW II short story books to record and preserve 300 stories of WW II history of B-17 and B-24 air crews, fighter pilots and POWs. Stories gathered in the past twenty years from TV interviews, memoirs and diaries of veterans. The majority of WW II vets are gone, but their WW II memories are saved. He also wrote “On Leatherwood Creek” which describes his boyhood prior to WW II and “Hutch’s Rainbow Bridge, Ninety-three Years of Pets” continues with family stories of all the pets in his life and escapades after retirement to his dream home on a farm.

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