Up-River, Down-River, Out-to-Sea: A Collection of Short Stories About Growing Up on the Merrimack River

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Memoirs of life growing up on Rings Island, Massachusetts, a peninsula near the mouth of the Merrimack River, in the 1920s, '30s, & '40s. Woodard, who became a popular & influential professor of geology at Beloit college, was the middle child & only boy of five children born into a commercial fishing family in 1925. After his retirement from full-time teaching & death of his mother in 1992, he began to research family history and write down his memories of early life and family stories, finally publishing them in 2016. Hardcover, as pictured; no jacket, as issued. INSCRIBED by the author to a pair of colleagues. Light wear to book, near fine. Text clean; 151 pages, color & b/w photos & illustrations, brief bibliography. Size: Quarto. N° de ref. del artículo w0584

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