Most conversations with storyteller Bruce Allen include tales of the characters met, the values taught and the joys of growing up during the 1930s and '40s in his beloved Button End, a long-gone, tight-knit immigrant and blue collar neighborhood on the east side of Woburn, Massachusetts. You'll meet a cherished teacher who taught much more than the three Rs, a depression-era family that couldn't quite grow flowers, but ended up with enough vegetables...