by Taylor Reese
Memoir is an intimate and personal window into a life. The history into a time and place can be illuminating but sometimes dry. A memoir, on the other hand, can take you back in time in a way that makes you feel that you are actually there--a memoir can give you the genuine flavor of the time. From Here To There opens a window on the first seventeen years of the life of a farm boy from eastern North Carolina. The story pulls back the lid on a time long gone when cotton was harvested by hand and when Cloverine Salve was the balm for all burns, scrapes, hurts and stings that boys--and not a few girls--are prone to. This story makes you remember walking in the rain and the feel of mud squishing through your toes. You may not have experienced an era when we had teachers instead of educators; you may not have had discipline as a necessary part of the ABCs, but you can be there with a boy who knew those days. Taylor Reese lived on a farm where the work was so backbreaking that out of six brothers not one stayed on the acreage to follow his father’s footsteps. You may not be able to live such days anymore but you can go there as you read From Here To There.
<p>by Taylor Reese</p>
<p>Memoir is an intimate and personal window into a life. The history into a time and place can be illuminating but sometimes dry. A memoir, on the other hand, can take you back in time in a way that makes you feel that you are actually there—a memoir can give you the genuine flavor of the time. From Here To There opens a window on the first seventeen years of the life of a farm boy from eastern North Carolina. The story pulls back the lid on a time long gone when cotton was harvested by hand and when Cloverine Salve was the balm for all burns, scrapes, hurts and stings that boys—and not a few girls—are prone to. This story makes you remember walking in the rain and the feel of mud squishing through your toes. You may not have experienced an era when we had teachers instead of educators; you may not have had discipline as a necessary part of the ABCs, but you can be there with a boy who knew those days. Taylor Reese lived on a farm where the work was so backbreaking that out of six brothers not one stayed on the acreage to follow his father’s footsteps. You may not be able to live such days anymore but you can go there as you read From Here To There.</p>2007-07-15T11:35:46-04:00from-here-to-there374091Biography2007-07-15T11:35:46-04:00From Here To There2008-03-06T19:52:10-05:00Reese, Taylorbiography2007-07-15T11:35:46-04:00manual0663631deny1paperback112.953740910966366-4-6paperback2008-03-06T19:52:10-05:002007-07-15T11:35:46-04:0060261113740912008-03-06T19:52:10-05:00http://static.shopify.com/s/files/1/0003/7221/products/fromheretothere.jpg?1250382874