Chesapeake Boyhood: Memoirs of a Farm Boy

An engaging account of growing up on the lower Eastern Shore of the Chesapeake during the years following the Great Depression--with rousing tales of 'coon hunting, crabbing, boat building, duck hunting, oyster tonging, and Saturday jaunts to town.

Chesapeake Boyhood is an account of growing up on the lower Eastern Shore of the Chesapeake during the years following the Great Depression. Turner's stories include rousing tales of 'coon hunting, crabbing, boat building, duck hunting, oyster tonging, and Saturday jaunts to town. Turner brings the characters, experiences, waterscape, and landscape of rural Virginia to life as no one has done before or is likely ever to do again. His own drawings illustrate the stories, and they, too, win us over with their honesty and charm.

Author: William H. Turner
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 04/01/1997
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.82lbs
Size: 8.94h x 5.99w x 0.64d
ISBN: 9780801855894

About the Author

William H. Turner is an internationally renowned sculptor. Born in 1935 in Northampton County on Virginia's Eastern Shore, he graduated from the University of Virginia with a degree in anthropology in 1957 and from the Medical College of Virginia dental school in 1969. During the 1960s, his interest in painting and sculpture gradually led to his becoming a full-time sculptor. He lives on the shores of the Chesapeake and has a studio on Route 13 near Onley, Virginia.

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