Livin PO in Sandbed Hell

Livin PO in Sandbed Hell
by Gordon Long

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Author: Gordon Long
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2001-06
ISBN: 0970219075
Number of pages: 262
Publisher: Southern Charm Press

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Book Review: A Remarkable Memoir by a Master Story Teller...
Summary: 5 Stars

Gordon Long's "Livin Po in Sandbed Hell" does for Georgia's flatland poor what the hugely popular Foxfire series did for north Georgia Mountain folk. He puts Girard, Georgia on the map with stories that will be laughed at for generations to come.

Structured as a well-written and incredibly funny memoir--which it is--Long's book also serves as an overview of Georgia farm life during the 1940s and 1950s not depicted anywhere else.

Gordon Long is a masterful story-teller. Readers will quickly have a sense of sitting on a front porch with a gifted and remarkable man. He tells his stories with just the right dose of humor as he describes the farm life of his youth.

These tales range from blowing up stumps with dynamite to the perils of using a two-man crosscut saw; then offers details of: mule psychology and "motivation" needed to plow the fields; the ritual of hog-killing for meat, sausage and crackling; milking cows; quail hunting and country dogs; country privies; hunting and fishing trips that bonded families and communities; efforts to save the farm from foreclosure; "dirt farming" for cotton, peanuts, peas and corn; country meals and how food was stored and cooked.

The closing chapters offer a remarkable story how Long, as a young man worked hard to gain a public education to qualify him for entrance into college; attending rural church services, revival meetings and "dinner on the grounds"; wakes and funerals; and, a memorable 4-H camp.

This is a candid, funny and thoroughly enjoyable memoir that will serve as a wonderful education for city-folks who are interested in the skills, traditions, and daily life of Georgia farm life.

Long went on from Girard, Georgia to earn his bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, and his master's and doctorate in Business Administration. He then worked for years in corporate boardrooms, later to bring his skills and experience to Georgia College & State University where he was one of the most dynamic and respected faculty in that University's College Business.

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Summary of Livin PO in Sandbed Hell

Livin PO in Sandbed Hell is a nonfiction, humorous autobiographical memoir about desperation and the "Poverty Motivational Method." There are no pretensions. The language is vintage Country PO, sometimes quite plain and coarse. Many will identify the grinding poverty and the resulting indignities to the mind, body and soul. To win was to ESCAPE! The book is amusing, sad, and sometimes gut busting funny.

The endless back breaking work in the sun roasted fields, planting, plowing, and harvesting on an eighty acre row crop farm is vivid. In the rural south, poverty was an "Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Condition" for both whites and blacks. "Saving for a rainy day" was an absurd concept, since it was always monsoon season for the PO. Being "Poor" was way upscale from "PO", and I shall forever present it in capital letters!

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