Home On The Range Memories Of The Cuthbertson Family 1953 1965

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Home on the Range contains the memories of Grandmother, Ruth Barden, of growing up in Montville in the 1950s. Times were tough. Washing machines took the form of backyard coppers and concrete tubs. Stoves were wood fired. Mum made your clothes. You walked to school - bare footed. You sat on a long form behind a long desk with 5 other kids and copied from the blackboard and if you were really good, you got to beat the duster. You built billy- goat carts and cubby-houses and climbed trees, jumped over a carpet snake lying across the track, and your neighbour had a new black and white television set and let you watch the children's programs that were shown after school. (if you were early, you even got to watch the test pattern until the program started.) Ruth captures the world of the 50s in a way that will entrance and inform the reader of the 2020s.