Earnest Mercer

The Old Yellow House Anthology: 1935-1945 Earnest Mercer First edition

The years leading up to World War II were difficult. The Great Depression enveloped the entire country driving men to desperate measures to provide for their families. When World War II began, many essentials for living, already scarce or unaffordable were rationed for the war effort. The author spent these years living in an old ramshackle house in the small Florida town of Auburndale. This book is a collection of anecdotes with which people of that era will identify and appreciate. Others will enjoy the poignant; sometimes humorous adventures of a barefoot boy during the years 1935 to 1945, a time of great challenges and a time of human sacrifice not endured since the Civil War.