On the Banks of Holliday Creek EPUB

After a tragic accident the Wrights find a new beginning movingfrom the city with all its conveniences to a forty acre farm on thebanks of Holliday Creek.

Told from the perspective of their nineyear-old son David, the Wrights meet the neighboring Jones family. Dick Wright is a rising star in the Fort Dodge public school system. Old Jim Jones introduces himself as a flunky who works for UnitedStates Gypsum.

The two families send their children to HollidayCreek School two miles away.

The one-room school thrives underthe leadership of Miss Jordison, the teacher you always wished youhad.

Each One Teach One is her process as recalled by the author,David Wright, himself a published educator.

Vivid family contrastsare woven into this narrative that shows America in the TrumanEra witnessing the advent of electricity, the telephone, and theBaby Boom generation.

This book depicts Progressive Republicansconfronting forces of social change, Big Government, and Reaction. Underlying this story are the ideals of personal liberty and thechallenges of living close to nature.