My Growing Up Years on the Eastern Shore

Mary Bound Wimbrow
155 pages, Family and Local Pictures

This first book by Mary B. Wimbrow has an obvious appeal for those who grew up on the Eastern Shore during the depression and World War II, an almost equal appeal for those who shared comparable experiences in other parts of the country, and, one suspects, a universal appeal to many young girls caught up in that mysterious process of coming of age. Written at the bidding of her son who in trying circumstances beyond his control found solace in the familiar stories of his mother’s childhood, My Growing Up years includes the names and experiences of family, friends, neighbors, classmates, and acquaintances of Mary Bound Wimbrow during the thirties, forties, and beyond. Her detailed accounts of the ordinary experiences shared by so many of those years will have many of readers reaching back to long unrecalled moments and reaching out to recapture those moments with others