Growing Up Country

About the Book

For a boy growing up in the crawfish dirt of Northeast Louisiana, the real world can look harsh and bewildering, even unfriendly toward its culturally and economically challenged rural neighbors. We came to understand that with hard work, sacrifice, and determination, anyone can rise above his lowly circumstances. Our cotton patch successes and failures taught us to appreciate what we have and accept our lot with humility until we can overcome the challenges and fulfill our dreams.

About the Author

Arthur Ferrell Wilson, age seventy-four, of Bossier City, Louisiana, spent his working years in mass communications and sales, traveling the land and observing the proud traditions of faith, service, and sacrifice that nurtured this proud nation. A child of the flat delta lands of northeastern Louisiana, he saw up close how a struggling family farm culture sustained generations with hard work, character, and perseverance against a backdrop of disease, war, flooding, and crop failure.