Arock!: An Earthy Tale of War and Peace

By Johnnie Perkins

Old Johnnie Perkins died in his eighties, but he left behind a handwritten and illustrated manuscript that he created when he was eleven. It proved to be his private journal of the summer of 1946 in Arock, Oregon.To a bright boy who read the newspaper avidly, the changes that followed World War Two were often bewildering. The horses of his father's day were out, and cars were in.Like most boys Johnnie idolized the movie cowboys, but at the same time he was alarmed at the things he was discovering around him. Wars still seemed to be happening everywhere. Progress seemed out of control, and even his beloved Uncle Rufus preached progress. "Unc" drove a treasured automobile and shunned horses. Unc apparently provided a lot of Johnnie's education, making up for the limitations of the one-room school in Arock.We have only Johnnie's word for Arock as he remembered it. Most of the old-timers have passed on. Of the school Johnnie attended, nothing now remains except a roadside memorial containing the brass school bell with an inscription by the Fretwell brothers, civic-minded pioneers who saved the old bell from salvage.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1706234937
• ISBN13: 9781706234937
• Release Date: November 2019
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 298 Pages
• Weight: 0.97 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"