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Zombies Invade the Southside!

其他書名	And Other Boyhood Recollections about Growing Up in Jefferson City
出版	Old Munichburg Association, 2023
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=B2Kd0AEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋"This is not a horror novel -- far from it! With humor and insight, historian Walter A. Schroeder shares his third collection of essays and memories about Jefferson City -- this, his most personal yet. In his first collection, Southside Sketches, Schroeder shared the oral histories of his elders and stories gleaned from local German-language newspapers. In Buddy's Stories, he tied the community's history with his own family's experiences during World War II. In Zombies Invade the Southside! Schroder presents warm and colorful portraits of his family amid a wide range of memories of his childhood in Jefferson City's Southside. The more than ninety essays cover a variety of topics ... At turns humorous and poigmamt, Zombies in the Southside! provides a personal glimpse into Schroeder's family life and his perspectives as a child growing up in the forties. It's a collection of stories about what it was like to be him. These stories -- so particular to his experience -- were not originally intended to be shared outside the family. But as historian Schroeder explains, 'If my family was not representative, whose would be? Logically, whereas every family is unique, every family can just as well serve as an example of the times. It's your job, reader, to compare and contrast with your family and draw your own conclusions.' Schroeder's colorful details revive scenes of the past so we can better understand and imagine Jefferson City in the 1940s. As he explains, 'In every generation, including mine, young people learn only the skeleton of the past. I want to put meat on the skeleton's bones.'"--Description from back cover.