A boyhood in Nelson

Plot

Ken Morrow's heartwarming stories tell how a mother's love and laughter triumphed over the hardship people faced during the years of the Great Depression.When Ken was a baby, his father died, leaving Ken's mother to raise four children under the age of five. Her German mother lived with them and taught them the work ethic and how to live mainly off the land.Worry about keeping her family together on the paltry widow's pension made his mother cry under the covers at night, but in front of her children, she laughed. She taught them honesty, kindness, and self-reliance as they hawked newspapers downtown and scrounged saleable finds in back alleys.