Stephen Lars Kalmon

"This book is a collection of essays and short stories by Stephen Lars Kalmon. The impetus for this collection are memories and activities that the author encountered during a long and productive life lived with his eyes, ears, heart, and soul wide open to the world's possibilities. The author invites the reader to enjoy the words and turn the pages for an experience that will arouse the reader's laughter, sadness, and joy as words are meant to do...

"A youth (Stephen Lars Kalmon) raised in a Midwest rural setting, remembers the vast changes after World War II. He tells the story of buying a new Hudson, a long tricky process in which a man is upstaged in the deal. When the farm was wired for electricity it enabled the use of many mysterious new appliances. In a backcountry tavern tricksters fool some city slickers, with a twist, it winds up in laughter. At a square-dance and basket social he learns...