Growing Up in the Last Small Town: A West Virginia Memoir, a humorous and poignant account of the early life of retired Marshall University scholar Bob Barnett, a self-described bad student and undersized athlete coming of age in the 1950s. It is also the story of all of us who grew up in small-town America between 1940 and 1960. For Bob and the other children in unincorporated pottery town Newell, West Virginia, it was a time of simple pleasures: shedding winter coats on the first day of spring, playing baseball until dark, watching four-hour children s matinees on Saturday afternoon, and breaking plates in the town dump, their favorite playground. It was a time when getting the right date for the prom was more important than the election of the president. This story captures the rhythm of small-town life that we thought would never change. But change came quickly. Television became a staple of modern life in the 1950s offering Elvis, the evening news, and a vivid view of...

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