Overhalls and Leftovers: Forty Short Pieces About Penn Yan and Keuka Lake - Life in the Good Old Days

Jensen, Al

ISBN 10: 0975955012 / ISBN 13: 9780975955017

Published by Bear Over the Mountain, Tuscon, AZ, 2005

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199pp. T.

Seller Inventory # 002299

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Overhalls and Leftovers: Forty Short Pieces About Penn Yan and Keuka Lake - Life in the Good Old Days
• Publisher: Bear Over the Mountain, Tuscon, AZ
• Publication Date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0975955012
• ISBN 13: 9780975955017
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Very Good
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • First Edition
  • Biography / Memoir
  • U. S. History

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Synopsis

Penn Yan, a small village at the north end of Keuka Lake in New York's Finger Lakes, is a special place, not only for those who have lived there, but for families whose ancestors shared a time in Yates and Steuben counties. These stories about life in the 1920s and 1930s are mostly true, as true as memory and imagination can combine.Al Jensen, a sixth-generation descendant of Finger Lakes families including the Parkers, Gays, Laflers, Lownsberrys and Tylers, grew up in Penn Yan and on Keuka Lake. Although he hasn't lived there in many years, like many others he never really left. "Learning to Walk,""The 1932 Yates County Oil Well,""Good Strong Food" and "Ice Boating on Keuka Lake" are just a few of the tales of every day life for a small town boy. Every day, that is, for a boy whose playground was a lake and the surrounding countryside; whose toys had wheels and keels, and whose heroes were real people who did ordinary things in extraordinary ways.