Small-Town Boy, Small-Town Girl: Growing Up in South Dakota, 1920-1950 by Fowler, Eric B. & Sheila Delaney Format: Trade PaperbackPublished by SDSHS Press, 2009 South Dakota memoir by Eric B. Fowler & Sheila Delaney. Edited and with an introduction by Molly P. Rozum. Includes bibliographical references and index. "There were memorable occasions when Mother would give us a penny to spend on the way to school. Sometimes the penny was saved for future investment, but when the penny was too hot to keep in our pocket, we would buy two sticks of licorice root (real root) or two horehound sticks. The licorice roots would last for days because we could bite a small piece and chew it for hours; the remaining dry root went into a pocket for another day." -Eric Fowler. "I was fifteen and feeling pretty one day while we were sitting in the car outside Father's office waiting for him to come out. Down the street I spied a cute boy from my class and got ready to wave coyly at him. Mother suddenly reached out, got my head in a hammer-lock and, pulling out one of her pretty handkerchiefs, spit on it an began scrubbing my ears. 'Sheila,' she said loud enough for him to hear, 'you always forget your ears!' Oh, the horror!" - Sheila Delaney.
