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Rosaries, Baseball and a Brick to the Head: A Memoir of my youth in 50's and 60's Chicago
Take a nostalgic ride back to the 50's and 60's in this often funny, sometimes heartbreaking, memoir of growing up Catholic on the Northwest side of Chicago. The author's dilemma of being an ADD student under the strict supervision of Catholic nuns combined with his unsupervised antics when away from school promises chuckles and gasps as Jack McCabe recounts the hilarious and poignant stories of his blue-collar childhood. Sure to be enjoyed by those of all generations.
215 pages, Paperback
Published March 18, 2024
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December 26, 2024
I loved it because I grew up in the same neighborhood and attended Canty Kindergarten and St. Francis Borgia School through the 7th grade.
The story is pure boomer from the lack of air conditioning to brutally cold Winters and the presence of alcoholism in a working class Chicago neighborhood in the late 1950s and 1960s.
We were all poor, but none of the kids knew it.
The story is pure boomer from the lack of air conditioning to brutally cold Winters and the presence of alcoholism in a working class Chicago neighborhood in the late 1950s and 1960s.
We were all poor, but none of the kids knew it.
Displaying 1 of 1 review