The struggles of a boy from an impoverished family growing up in the 1950s and the 1960s where the father worked a 12 hour day 6 days a week in the largest bituminous coal mine in the world for a mere pittance. This book takes you back to a foregone time when there was no television, internet, cell phones, air travel and much of the modern technology that exists today. Step into this time machine and set the dial to April 1942 and let this book reveal those days of yesteryear.