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    Boundary Street to Broadway Avenue: A Memoir
    Boundary Street to Broadway Avenue: A Memoir
    Boundary Street to Broadway Avenue: A Memoir
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    Boundary Street to Broadway Avenue: A Memoir

    By Huel Willis

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    Huel Williss adventure began on Boundary Street in Harpers Ferry, West Virginia.

    He looks back at his childhood adventures, the lessons he learned growing up, and his failures and successes in this memoir.

    Growing up in the 1940s and 1950s meant attending a four-room elementary school with a view of the Gapthe confluence of the Potomac and the Shenandoah rivers flowing between the Blue Ridge Mountains.

    His elementary school teachers were strong-willed and dedicated mentors. Whatever the event, from spelling bees to math competitions, students were prepared.

    He hit his stride in high school, and hed attend Colorado University-Boulderas the first person in Jefferson County history to go to a major school on a football scholarship, according to the Spirit of Jefferson Advocate, the local county paper.

    He spent most of the 1960s in the Air Force, and while on his first leave after basic training, he married a schoolteacher hed met while working at a country club as a bartender, and two years later, they had a son.

    Willis, however, would not stay in the Air Force forever, and he reveals all his adventures in business and in life in Boundary Street to Broadway Avenue.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisheriUniverse
    Release dateJun 21, 2018
    ISBN9781532011672
    Boundary Street to Broadway Avenue: A Memoir
    Author

    Huel Willis

    Huel Willis, a retired businessman, earned a masters degree from Columbia Pacific University and completed his undergraduate studies at University of Colorado, Penn State University, University of San Carlos in the Philippines, and Shepherd University. When hes not at home in Arizona with his wife, LaVerne, he enjoys traveling in his motor home. This is his first book.

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