Minnesota Boy: Growing Up in Mid-America, Mid-20th Century, by Lee Foster

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What is it like growing up in America? The answer depends partly on the time and place. More specifically, what was it like growing up in a mid-America Minnesota around mid-20th century? This book provides an answer to the question. Minnesota Boy: Growing Up in Mid-America, Mid-20th Century is a new edition and a new title for a book that Lee Foster wrote and photographed in the late 1960s. The book was first published in 1970 and titled Just 25 Cents and Three Wheaties Boxtops. Foster was studying American Literature and beginning his writing career as a graduate student at Stanford at the time. His mentor, Wallace Stegner, liked the book and assisted him in getting an agent and publisher. This book is a collection of memories. It is something other than essays forming a memoir. It attempts to approximate the language, conversation, thought, images, and feelings of the era. The goal is to capture the essence and spirit of growing up in a Minnesota America of that era. As Lee Foster wrote in the 1970 edition: “The boy often dreamed of where his life would roam as a man. When he became a man, who had lived 26 years on the planet, he looked back on his life and created a dream, not unlike his earlier dreams of the future. Memories of his times returned, some as recent as a year ago, some as dimly distant as 20 years past, often bursting forth gratuitously, always appearing in an order that was true to a chronology of the spirit, a truth of textures and shadings and fragile moments. He realized, as the pleasures of his re-creation stretched into months, that the story belonged less to himself than to a part of his generation. Phrases, objects, and people, as they passed before him, spoke their imprisoned moments of the past, which, like a thousand genies within bottles, lay always present, but definitely mute, waiting for their proper decoders, waiting for those singers of songs who reach for the magic words and unlock fragments of all our secrets.” “Minnesota Boy is a poetic slice of Americana” –Jim Gebbie “A brilliant memoir portrait, masterful writing, with significant historical value” – Ann F. Purcell

Minnesota Boy: Growing Up in Mid-America, Mid-20th Century, by Lee Foster

• Amazon Sales Rank: #3472822 in Books
• Published on: 2015-03-09
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 9.00" h x .50" w x 6.00" l, .66 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 200 pages

Minnesota Boy: Growing Up in Mid-America, Mid-20th Century, by Lee Foster

About the Author Lee Foster is an award-winning American travel and literary book author living in Berkeley, California, near San Francisco. His website at http://www.fostertravel.com features more than 200 of his worldwide travel writing/photography coverages. His work has won numerous writing industry awards, including eight Lowell Thomas Awards, with Lee being named Travel Journalist of the Year (Silver Winner). Lee has 18 books on his U.S. Amazon Author Page at http://amzn.to/1jl9Lnz. He has published his travel writing/photography over the years in the major U.S. travel magazines, from Travel + Leisure to National Geographic Traveler. He has also been published in the main U.S. newspapers, from the New York Times to the Los Angeles Times. Lee has a long partnership with the prominent travel book publisher, Lonely Planet, and has had his photos in more than 300 Lonely Planet books. This book captures Lee's growing-up-in-Minnesota youth.

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. Enjoyable memories of midwestern values and experiences By Michael F Wyatt Charming and easy to read reprisal of some distinct images and memories of growing up in a different era. The photos capture some timeless moments of days gone by, and the stories of lakes, trains, local bullies, and coming of age all come together nicely in this book. Minnesota and Midwest notions are captured very well.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Midwest Americana and Nostalgic Heaven By S. M. Ulmen Very well written and illustrated nostalgic rewrite of "35 cents and Two Wheaties Boxtops" from several decades ago. "Minnesota Boy" features the town of Mankato Minnesota c. 1940's-1950's, where Lee Foster grew up.Mankato is also the site of the hanging of 38 Sioux warriors following the Dakota Conflict of 1862, which was and still remains the largest mass execution in the history of the United States. This story is available at Amazon in the format of your choice as "Blood on the Prairie, A Novel of the Sioux Uprising."

0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Minnesota Boy By Leerae M. Blaylock Boring!

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