Kay Hoflander: 2 books

THE FUDDY DUDDY DADDY Richard Austin Maxwell liked the nickname Mom gave him. She called him Pancake because that was his favorite food, and no matter how many he ate, he never tired of pancakes. Richards favorite sport was baseball, and his favorite place to play it was in Chautauqua Park. When Richards...

Life in the early 1900s was quite different from today. The pace was slower (or so we believe in retrospect). The music was sweeter. And, one learned life by the living. Then came the roaring Twenties. The pace quickened. The music became more upbeat, spiked with heady mixtures of jazz, ragtime and...