Rubin, an author, editor, publisher, and professor, tells fictionalized stories about his childhood in Charleston, South Carolina. He juxtaposes the historical, cultural, and literary quality
of the downtown area with the more middle class, ordinary feel of the Uptown region as he draws from his childhood in the city in the 1930s and 1940s to relate stories about landmarks like
Adger's Wharf, the Battery, Union Terminal, the High School of Charleston, the Majestic Theater, and the College of Charleston, and tales about class differences, the barges and trawlers of the
waterfront, streetcars and trains, playing baseball, the Folly Beach Ferris wheel, and other memories. The stories were previously published and revised for this volume. Annotation 穢2010 Book
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