My Flint Hills Childhood: Growing Up in 1930s Kansas

ABOUT THE BOOK: A childhood on the Kansas prairies in the 1930s springs vividly to life in the detailed memories of Gail Martin. Her simple accounts of long ago school days, celebrations and family life are a treasure. Travel back in time to life in the Flint Hills during the Great Depression, and the time leading up to World War II. The memories include her father's work in the oil field, trips to town in the family's Model A, raising a pet badger, fishing on the Cottonwood River and wearing dresses made from feed sack material. The book also explores her family's role in early Kansas history with details of covered wagons, homesteading, the Civil War and fledgling industries. Follow the Tower, Vining and McGhee family from Tyro to Teterville to Eureka.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Gail Lee Martin (1924-2013) was Kansas Authors Club State Archivist from 1995-2005. She joined Kansas Authors Club in 1992 and was a member of District 5. Martin enjoyed writing fiction, nonfiction, stories for children, journalism, history, and poetry. Her work was published in numerous magazines. She also published two books: CLYDE OWEN MARTIN, FAMILY MEMORIES OF HIS LIFE AND TIMES and MY FLINT HILLS CHILDHOOD, GROWING UP IN 1930S KANSAS, which won the Ferguson Kansas History Book Award in 2010. The Martin Kansas History Book Award was created in 2018 as a tribute to her.

BOOK DESIGN AND EDITING: VIRGINIA ALLAIN, http://vallain.wordpress.com/.