Here's the child's-eye view of Decker, Indiana, with raising baby chicks, twilight children's games, holidays like Decoration Day (now vanished), every kind of delicious food: date pudding, bread pudding, hermits, pocketbook rolls with home-churned butter. The book is a feast in itself celebrating the richness of small town farm culture.

Recollections of farm life and farming people in Monroe County, Indiana.