The early C & D canal, Chesapeake City, Maryland and life on a small farm come alive as the narrator conveys a boy's coming-of-age experiences. It's great fun to listen in as the writer displays the boy's naivet? contrasted with the pseudo-intelligence of his hard-drinking, cavalier uncle.This first book of selected, fully illustrated stories by Robert Hazel relates what life was like in the canal town of seventy years ago. The boy's misadventures...