Real, Rural - by Larry Kyle Meredith (Paperback)

About the Book

A memoir about growing up in a rural area in the 1950s. This book examines the issues faced locally by young people living in or near a very small town in central Kansas, as well as national issues such as Civil Rights, nuclear concerns such as the Korean War and other issues. It compares rural life to urban living.

Book Synopsis

Real, Rural is a memoir about growing up in a rural area in the 1950s. This book examines the issues faced locally by young people living in or near a very small town in central Kansas, as well as national issues such as Civil Rights, nuclear concerns such as the Korean War and other issues. It compares rural life to urban living. Real, Rural examines the whole of the 1950s, not only from a rural point of view, but also from the perspective of anyone who grew up during that decade and who was concerned with national and international concerns and conflicts and how they affected that individual personally.

Review Quotes

Real, Rural is Larry Meredith's memoir of "growing up rural" in Bushton, Kansas during the 1950s. It is a fascinating account of life in a small town (population 500-600) during the best of times for rural Kansas.

Darrell Munsell, author of From Redstone to Ludlow: John Cleveland Osgood's Struggle against the United Mine Workers of America, retired university history professor and also a rural kid from Kansas

If you grew up in the '50s, this book is a must read for you. If you weren't "Rural" you will wish you had been. The characters and times in this book are real; "Rural" was the place to have been in the '50s. Proud I was. It was a hoot!

Colonel Donnal Hiltbrunner (USMC Retired, Bushton, Kansas High School Class of 1956)

Meredith nailed it with Real, Rural! For many of us in the '50s religious principles guided us in our actions. Reliance on others taught us teamwork and generosity. Striving for material goods meant working hard to earn them. Perhaps reviewing the past will help promote a new generation of hard-working, law-abiding individuals.

Myretta Behnke Bell (Bushton, Kansas High School Class of 1958)