The Magic of Ordinary Times: Childhood in the 1950s Without Electronics - Softcover

Nowacki, Joyce

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1480083585 ISBN 13: 9781480083585

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2012

Synopsis

This collection of stories of a family of seven children, growing up in the 1950s, shows “the way it was” in everyday life in bygone days. Kids today do not know what they don’t know. Masterly they use today’s electronics and modern conveniences with no idea what it would be not to have them, nor how they came to be. A note from the author: Inspired by watching my teen-granddaughter texting with her cell phone, I told her how amazing today’s technology was and that when I was her age our telephone was on a party line. She wanted to know if I went to the party. Her non-understanding of what I was talking about prompted the writing of this book.

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About the Author

Joyce Nowacki is a freelance writer. She has written over 600 news articles and taught writing classes for North Idaho College Workforce Training. Joyce lives in Spirit Lake, Idaho with her husband, Wayne, of 45 years, both are natives of North Idaho. She swears her husband keeps her around just to see what she will do next. They have two daughters and five grandchildren. Nowacki also authored a novel, The Other Side of the Fence, a historical novel, of Chinese Immigrants during the 1880s in the Pacific Northwest.

Edition details

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1480083585
• ISBN 13: 9781480083585
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 180