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Before Opie lived in Mayberry, Beaver and Wally in Mayfield, and Betty, Bud and Kathy in Springfield, there were thousands of little Black children experiencing the same quality of life in Cherry Hill, a post WWII planned suburban community containing a public housing project on a southeastern peninsula of Baltimore City. These children had a sense of being loved, being free, being safe, and above all, having the space they needed to stretch out and enjoy small town living. They could play all day with their friends, skate and ride their bikes all over town, and chase the ice cream man s truck, with the admonishment to be home by the time the streetlights came on. The author was one of those children, and she rallied sixty or so of her Cherry Hill contemporaries to share what life was like for them in what they know to be a special place and time.
Publisher : History Publishing Company LLC (July 4, 2018)
Language : English
Paperback : 190 pages
ISBN-10 : 1940773474
ISBN-13 : 978-1940773476
Item Weight : 9.6 ounces
Dimensions : 6 x 0.43 x 9 inches
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Customers find the book a good read, but it gets bogged down in minutiae. They also describe the story as historical and enlightening.
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