How to Eat a Wild Green Pancake: & Other Humorous Tales

I wrote HOW TO EAT A WILD GREEN PANCAKE over a period of several years. It is about a 10 to 12 year-old boy and his friends growing up in a small railroad town in West Virginia in the 40's and 50's. Of course everything is seen through the eyes of these boys and as everyone knows things oft times get exaggerated during those pre-puberty years. All persons, names, and places are fictitious; any resemblance to anyone either living or dead is purely coincidental. Persons appearing in mystories are composites of the personalities of most everyone I've ever met. The Hilltop Gang was real and it consisted of about a dozen boys that were all about the same age. For the simplicity of telling my stories, I condensed them to four: Early Mornin' Moon (my crazy Indian cousin), Thurlow Puckett (my best buddy), TT(Tommee Tyree Tiddle) and of course, me. I don't say what we did, saw, thought about, tried, invented, built, forgot into was typical of young boys but we did our fare share of roaming the mountains in central West Virginia and experimenting with 'things' I want to caution everyone; do not use any of the ideas or build any of the contraptions the Hilltop Gang came up with; you or someone close to you could get hurt. This book was not written as a construction manual; it was written to be read and enjoyed. The author's intentions are to provoke laughs only. My thanks and apologies to all my old high school English teachers, wherever you are. I especially want to thank the one that told me, "Write about what you know and write it the way you hear it" "Thanky Mam, I shore 'nuff did" - Ray McCune