Bob Artley's Country School Days: From the Memories of a Former Kid

Description

With fond reminiscences and nostalgic cartoons, Bob Artley takes readers back to his little country schoolhouse, Marion No. 7, in Iowa's Franklin County. Readers will share farm boy Artley's first-day agonies, the long walks to and from school, the school yard games, the Christmas program, and the annual picnic - all recalled with his characteristic humor and insight. Everything that Artley experienced - from the smell of scorched mittens left too long on the stove to dry to the excitement of performing in the school program - is recalled here with delightful details, providing life lessons and delightful, warm memories. Artley is considered one of the country's foremost recorders of farm history. His wonderful artwork and stories reflect his sense of country nostalgia and farm heritage and speak to anyone with a farming background and to those who yearn for simpler times.

Bob Artley's career as an editorial cartoonist began with the Des Moines Tribune and continued at the Worthington Daily Globe (Minnesota), where he launched his syndicated cartoon series "Memories of a Former Kid." This long-lived series of autobiographical drawings is his masterpiece and continues to be syndicated in daily and weekly newspapers. He lives in Winter Haven, Florida.