Lexington Glory Days - Steven Reak - Bog

The setting is picturesque Lexington. A small, quiet, rural community in the upper Midwest, surrounded by a lake, a quaint church, two old lakeside bars and an old lively dance hall. It is the home of Betty, Edward, their families and friends. Where everyone is trying to make things better for each other and a life for themselves. Based on true story. Follow their lives in the simpler times of the 1940's and throughout the coming of age 1960's, and spend time with them at the old dance hall going to dances with Lily, a promiscuous neighbor, and Jigger, a family friend who lives in a camper alongside the dance hall. Meet Edward and Betty's parents, who are completely different from one another, their many brothers and sister's, their eccentric neighbors Roman and Edna, plus many more entertaining people and characters. Share their lives when Edward receives his draft notice for World War II, a mysterious drowning occurs, and see what happens when a group of wild gypsies ride through their small community. With their ever growing family, Edward and Betty, who's pregnant again, and with no where else to go after a house fire, move in with Edward's parents. After spending a terribly long winter with them, Edward and Betty buy an eighty-acre farm through the GI Bill, with an old two-story farm house with no running water and a barn. With both fortune and misfortune on their side, the locals tackle life's problems as they most always come along. Relying on help from their family, their neighbors, fellow church members and, of course, their friends at the pavilion bar and dance hall. Come and visit Lexington, you'll like it here. The people are fun, kind, quirky, loving, and honest.