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Situation in Flushing, The by Edmund G. Love w/ dust jacket
The Situation in Flushing by Edmund G. Love
Hard cover with dust jacket
Copyright 1965
246 pages
IN Mark Twain's day the most glamorous objects in a small boy's life were the river steamboats. By the second decade of this century the river boats had been supplanted by the `.inroads. In this warm and funny reminiscence of his early life in a small Michigan town, the author of Subways Are for Sleeping tells of the passionate love of a boy for the engines that chugged their way through his village.
Mr. Love has also created a nostalgic portrait of a place and a people that have long since vanished from the American scene. As he says, "I was born into a world that ceased to exist almost as soon as I came into it. In the first twelve years of my life, rural America was swept away as though it had been a picture on a blackboard that had suddenly been erased." Mr. Love has detailed that change in human terms and he has underlined the reasons why it was so sudden and so complete.
The people of Flushing, Michigan, who inhabit these pages will remain with you as individuals long after you put the book down. They are all here-Mr. Love's grandfather, who ran the town; Oren Hart, owner of the town's power station, who took revenge on anyone who opposed him by turning off his electricity; Joe Gage, the town's only Negro, whose good sense and town spirit made him one of Flushing's outstanding leaders and her most beloved citizen; Sate Parmelee Perry, who'd rather paint a dirty house free of charge than go on looking at it; Wes Bird, who converted the railroad's pumping station into a still.
In giving us a masterful biography of his own home town, Mr. Love has given us something we will all enjoy and recognize. This is America and Americana at its best.
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