Jim Thorpe never slept here : and other stories from a Mauch Chunk, Pennsylvania boyhood / Richard Benyo.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Benyo, Richard.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Benyo, Richard--Childhood and youth.

Benyo, Richard.

Mauch Chunk (Pa.)--Biography.

Mauch Chunk (Pa.).

Jim Thorpe (Pa.)--Biography.

Jim Thorpe (Pa.).

Boys--Pennsylvania--Mauch Chunk--Biography.

Boys.

Boys--Pennsylvania--Jim Thorpe--Biography.

Mauch Chunk (Pa.)--Social life and customs--20th century.

Jim Thorpe (Pa.)--Social life and customs--20th century.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

viii, 203 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Scranton : Pennsylvania Heritage Books/University of Scranton Press, [2008]

Summary:

It's the 1950s. Richie Benyo, Michael "Catfish" Gavornik, and their friends, have banded together to form the South Street Gang. South Street "gangster" turned raconteur, Richard Benyo, makes that 1950's world come alive with Marvel Comics, baseball cards, Golden Books, BB guns, cardboard forts, Pall Malls, Euro-ethnic neighborhoods, Sr. Mary Friedeberta of the Sisters of Christian Charity, that first sip of beer with Pistol Pete, Richie's grandpa, and one hilarious antic after another. Meanwhile, the Sisters say that the Soviets might launch a nuclear attack at any moment so they'd best hide under their desks. What a terrific time to be a kid!

Contents:

Geopolitics 1

Hard-Boiled Mother 13

The Cossmen Yeti 19

The Dank Dark and Pistol Pete 25

Drew 35

Plotting 53

Ether Or 59

Hurricane One (Roof by Frisbee) 67

Hurricane Two (A Truly Rocky Summer Camp) 71

The Coal Man Cometh 79

Jim Thorpe Never Slept Here 95

The Subterraneans 107

The Best Day Ever - Almost 129

The Journalist's Life for Me 147

Tangled Tongue 157

Gallant Knights and Their Ladies 169.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781589661660

1589661664

OCLC:

182736091