A Strenuous Day

By Wayne Mahood

Stretching three quarters of a century, from roughly 1870 to 1945, A Strenuous Day traces the lives of Harve and Hattie England from Maryville, Missouri, an otherwise ordinary couple caught up in events which transformed their lives. In telling their story, Mahood comes to know his grandparents, who are a very real part of this period in history made famous by a World War, a flu epidemic, the likes of Charles Lindbergh, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Herbert Hoover, and Franklin D. Roosevelt, and distinguished by the Depression. He chronicles the Englands pieced together from diaries, letters, local records, newspapers, and oral history as they navigated family, work, small town politics, and a defining tragedy while Harve served as County Sheriff. The merging of narrative, family history, and social history offers an intimate historical approach and broad insight into the "American experience" of the rural Midwest.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1942341148
• ISBN13: 9781942341147
• Release Date: December 2015
• Publisher: Milne Library
• Length: 182 Pages
• Weight: 0.48 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.5"