And Other Confessions of a Northwest Farm Girl
By Marianne Love
214 pages
softcover
6"x9" with illustrations
Marianne Love was reared right here in Sandpoint and was an English teacher at Sandpoint High School for oh-so-many-years. Pocket Girdles is her collection of laugh-out-loud autobiographical stories that captures the phenomenon of growing up in Sandpoint in the 1950S and early 60s, when it was a one-motel town so quiet it buttoned up for the winter after the last tourist left town on Labor Day. Her collection of humorous, often poignant, stories tell of good old days in Sandpoint, fraught with 4-H traumas, junior high disasters, Catholic guilt and more. Illustrated with pen-and-ink sketches by the author's mother, Virginia Tibbs, Pocket Girdles is a peek into a different Sandpoint era one that anyone who grew up in rural America will recognize.
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