Status
Available
Call number
Collection
Publication
Waterloo, Ontario : Herald Press, 2013.
DDC/MDS
370.92 S559b c.1 |
Description
"I promise: you will be transported," says Bill Moyers of this memoir. Part Mennonite in a Little Black Dress, part Growing Up Amish, and part Little House on the Prairie, this book evokes a lost time, in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, when a sheltered little girl named after Shirley Temple entered a family and church caught up in the midst of the cultural changes of the 1950's and `60's. With gentle humor and clear-eyed affection the author, who grew up to become a college president, tells the story of her first encounters with the "glittering world" and her desire for "fancy" forbidden things she could see but not touch.
Language
Physical description
271 p.; 22 cm
ISBN
9780836196269
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