Publisher's Synopsis
Whether or not you experienced The Great Depression, you will take pleasure in Tom's recollections of growing up when America was going through its changes.
Among the fond memories to be found in The Good Life, Shepherd recounts cutting through a fence with his friend "Too Tall" to see the Clyde Miller Rodeo, as well as sporting a Mohawk and pretending to be Chief Blackhawk in the woods.
At age fourteen, Shepherd began working as a telegrapher for the Illinois Central Railroad, and on his seventeenth birthday, embarked on the dangerous life serving in the US Navy.
Included in the book are several near-death experiences, including: making a crash landing when the Piper Cub's engine stopped during an exercise with the Civil Air Patrol Cadets, and diving out of the way as molten metal was dropped while working in a foundry.
In retrospect, Shepherd seems to have had a hard life. But he doesn't think so. The author looks back at his early years as the adventure of a lifetime!
