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Our Yesterdays: A Book Of Nostalgic Memories
Our Yesterdays A Book Of Nostalgic Memories Author:Arthur B. Coffee Art Coffee is seventy-five years this year of 1973, and will celebrate his birthday not too far from where he was born in Saginaw County, Michigan. — Together with two brothers and two sisters, he lived the farm life described between these covers, finally graduating from high school in 1915, shortly after the family had settled down on their own... more » farm, in Genesee County. This was a departure from the farms they had rented in previous years.
After a series of jobs, Art taught school in rural areas in Michigan, went to college during the summer, and spent some time as a salesman. He was teacher, principal, and school superintendent in one town where he taught.
During World War I, he served in the Fourth U.S. Cavalry on the Mexican border. (They used horses then)
With a considerable teaching career behind him, Art has now settled down to write for himself and for the local papers, and he and wife, Leah, enjoy the visits of their three children and four grandchildren« less
This book if meant for anyone who enjoys reading about how things used to be or remembering those times themselves. It has some black and white pictures.