A Societal Barometer
Publication Date: 01/10/2006
Bruce Edward Marsee provides a down-home approach to what it was like growing up with a porch in the mountains of Appalachia. Also provided is a glance into the soul of a writer who feels that when America lost its porches it also lost its moral compass. The author contends that there exists a correlation between porches and the norms of a society. The porch is a social barometer. The porch was sort of the family and neighborhood gathering place where Dad held forth with his conversations, observations, scolding, and pontifications. I knew every house, names of each person living in those houses and heard the loud screams, while sitting on our porch, when word came that a father, son or brother was killed in the Korean War. When it comes to politics and local politicians, Marsee includes those too, as well as the local snake handlers.
- ISBN:
- 9781424147823
- 9781424147823
- Category:
- Sociology: customs & traditions
- Publication Date:
- 01-10-2006
- Language:
- English
- Publisher:
- PublishAmerica, Incorporated
- Country of origin:
- United States
- Dimensions (mm):
- 228.6x152.4x4.57mm
- Weight:
- 0.13kg
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