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A Brookline Boyhood in the 1930s and 40s

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In A Brookline Boyhood, Jim Harnedy takes up a new challenge in his writing career and as an alternative of producing a local history he narrates a full of life tale of growing up in the 1930s and 40s in Brookline, a suburb to the southeast of Boston. Jim’s grandfather came from Bantry, County Cork, Ireland, and Jim begins his story with the Harnedy clan Saturday night tradition of having dinner at Grandma’s house. From here he’s taking us to the fire at Brookline High School and the hurricane of 1938; all memories from an impressionable young mind. Emergency surgery for a Maine Coon kitten is any other memory fragment followed by recalling hearing Franklin D. Roosevelt on the radio following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Growing up in the 1940s meant the Lone Ranger, Silver and Tonto at the movie theater and paying attention to radio stars at the same time as sat before a winter fire. For someone of sufficient years to understand that such nuggets, this book will produce evocative memories; for those of much younger years, Jim’s boyhood tale of growing up in Brookline will provide an interesting window into a Boston Irish circle of relatives of eighty years ago.

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