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This book contains stories of the lives of two brothers, one born in 1943 and the other in 1946, as they navigated life in North Central Texas during the 1950s and early 1960s. The locale of the stories is Fort Worth, Texas, and the Silver Creek community in nearby Parker County. Important events include the polio epidemic as well as the drought of record in Texas during those years and the effect it had on the rural poor.

Robert L. Hiett is the father of four children and lives with his wife Jane in North Carolina. He studied journalism at the University of North Texas and the University of Texas at Austin. After college he worked for the Corpus Christi Caller-Times. When the Vietnam War began, he joined the Air Force as an information officer and spent 1970 in Vietnam. He subsequently entered the business world and worked as a social scientist and market research specialist in the Washington D.C. area. He retired in 2003.

John M. Hiett is a father of two and lives with his wife Pat in Southern California. He left college during the Vietnam War years and joined the U.S. Navy where he was trained as a computer repair specialist. He served aboard the USS Sam Rayburn, a submarine patrolling the North Atlantic. After leaving the military, Jack worked for such companies as Texas Instruments, Datatel, and Wang Laboratories. He eventually retired as an executive with Motorola.