Life & Times of a Mountaineer

The Great Depression - Mountain StyleThe Great Depression wasn't so bad for those who knew how to live off the land and through their own hard work and creativity. Mountaineers of the 1930s had never heard of ?entitlement.' Few of them knew about (or wanted) Social Security. The decades of the1920s and 1930s were a time of self-sufficiency, hard work, the sticking together of families and communities, and having fun where you could find it.Coleman Reese gives us a glimpse of this past in his wonderful memoir, The Life & Times of a Mountaineer. Coleman's early years were filled with a raw vitality. We walk with him from his mountaineer beginning into World War II, then post-war Florida and, finally, returning to his mountain home for his retirement summers. Through these years, we see how the values and lessons learned in his early mountaineering life informed his adult successes.Says Coleman, ?If you want to be happy growing up and working and growing old, read this book.'Written with humor and wit, The Life & Times of a Mountaineer will entertain and edify everyone from history buffs to just plain folks who want to know how things used to be. It even has a little wisdom and advice for the upcoming generation. For anyone interested in American history and specifically the history of the Blue Ridge area, this is highly recommended reading.Reese, Coleman is the author of 'Life & Times of a Mountaineer', published 2003 under ISBN 9780972497947 and ISBN 0972497943.