Teachings from Pop - Eggspuehler, Don

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Résumé :
What we've got here, is failure to communicate! One of my favorite phrases from the 1967 movie, Cool Hand Luke, brought home to me the importance of learning life lessons through cross-generational story-telling. Passing down the stories from one generation to the next is a rich tradition getting lost these days in a sea of tweets and texts. One can't truly know where one is heading, without knowing where one has come from... so, fasten your seat belts, and learn more about: struggles of the early settlers in Iowa kid adventures of the 1950s fighting in the Civil War neighborhood battles with BB guns chasing after horse thieves slinging snowballs at trucks Teachings from Pop is a collection of stories, glimpses of time, from the original settlers in Iowa, to childhood in the fifties. The historical characters and circumstances portrayed in this book are based on real people and events. Combining the stories of several generations in the same location, the reader is transported from log cabins and Civil War days to hare-brained adventures in the 1950s. Boomers will remember these experiences as some of the best times ever, even though many were simply the stupid things kids dream up. Hopefully, this book will help people of today understand how life was back in the old days for the pioneers, through the mind-boggling changes that occurred during the next hundred-plus years.

Biographie:
Don Eggspuehler has lived in Richardson, Texas since 1975, but he grew up in Iowa Falls, Iowa, a small town in the heartland of America. Don graduated from The Ohio State University with a B.A. in International Studies in 1969 and later became a Marine Corps officer, who flew combat bombing missions in A6-A jets in Vietnam.He was married for twenty-three years to Linda Combs and they had three children, Cari, Jaime and Chad. She passed away from a brain tumor at age 46. Don's business career included 30 years in computer software sales, management, and consulting. His hobbies have included: golf, tennis, traveling, creating home movies, and writing. Don is now retired and happily married to his second wife, Lynda Lou (Sherman). Don has written numerous articles for newspapers and magazines, and he previously self-published two books: one a family memoir titled Star Benchwarmers (2011), and a historical fiction of Iowa Falls, Iowa, from the early settlers and Civil War through the 1950's, titled Teachings from Pop (2014). Life Lessons Learned in Grade School is his fifth book. Additionally, he wrote two other thrillers that have not been published.