Tales from the Hayloft vividly relate a young boy’s fears of being bombed on his family’s small southern Maine farm at the end of WWII, or burnt out during The Great Fire of 1947. Soon fear turns to wonder with stories of flying bulls, tractor accidents, sandlot umpires, salty garagemen, puppy love, false reverends, stranded airplanes, and too many brushes with fate. Generous in spirit and rich in mechanical detail, James E. Harris’s first collection is a historical time capsule of rural Maine life.
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Introduction: Why Write?
Map of Dayton, 1856
Letter, 1891
Transcription of Letter, 1891
Letter to Father
Lorne’s Labor
Buzzell Road
Sap Camp
The Great Fire of 1947
Roy’s Garage
Billy and the Bull
Under a Winter Moon
Christmas Ice
Great Aunt Nellie
Cattle Dealers
Mom and the Tractor
Cows in the Corn
The Bull that Soared
Batter Up
New Year’s Day, 1953
Centennial Celebration, 1954
A Real Cow Dog
Gone Fishin’
Lakeside Youth Camp, 1954
Labor Day, 1954
Lakeside Youth Camp, Revisited
Touchstone
End of Act II
Sammy
Welcome to Fort Dix
AWOL Airways
Overpacked Weekend
My First Solo
Unlimited Visibility
New Jersey Christmas, 1969
An Awakening
The Great Oak
Special Delivery
Color Theory
The Gift
Acknowledgments
Over de auteur
James E. Harris was born in Dayton, Maine, raised on Harris Farm, and graduated from Thornton Academy in nearby Saco. Armed with a degree in automotive technology from the Southern Maine Vocational Technical Institute, the US Army drafted him to serve stateside as a food inspector. Later, Jim worked as an independent claims adjuster, a career he held for over forty years. These days, he lives in South Portland with his wife Nancy and restores the iron of his youth to its rightful glory in his custom engine repair shop, The Engine Room. This is his first book.
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