When Grandpa Delivered Babies and Other Ozarks Vignettes

by Benjamin G. Rader

People in the Ozarks have long told humorous vignettes that make sense of triumph and tragedy, relay family and local history, and of course entertain. Benjamin G. Rader's memoir offers a loving portrait of the Ozarks of his youth, where his grandfather midwifed babies and his great uncle Jerry Rader laughed so hard at one of his own stories that he choked to death on a pork chop. As he reveals the Ozarks of the 1930s through 1950s, Rader dispels...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252045742
• ISBN13: 9780252045745
• Release Date: February 2024
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 160 Pages