Brush Creek Boyhood Days

This book is short and will take only a few minutes of your time to read. The setting of this book took place in the rural area of Southeastern Kentucky. All the people in this area were of the same class and held outstanding moral and ethical values. This today would be hard to come by, however when I look back and think of the many values that I learned from these great people, I pause and give thanks: The value of being honest, being truthful, obeying our parents, respecting our elders, and our religious training. These were wholesome assets. Some of these stories may seem a little devilish and mean to others and really they were. These antics were normal of this time period.

John Alford recently turned 81. Age if nothing else entitles him to write about day’s past. These memories happened in the late thirties and forties. To many younger people, this period of time would seem dull and no fun at all, but we learned to be creative and learned many wholesome values