Growing up without many of the things we now consider absolute necessities did not seem like hard times to young Tom Rice. Little had changed in the rural community of Bowlers Wharf, Virginia from the time described in Charles Frazier's Cold Mountain.The mid 1930s were hard times by anyone's standards, but there was sailing to be enjoyed, bull sessions with friends, a little corn liquor, and lots of hard labor.
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