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Snakes in the Kitchen

Carolyn Paul Branch

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Description:We were "river rats" - that's what they called us. We lived in the bottoms, close to the railroad tracks and the Missouri River.Nearly every year the river flooded and turned our dirt streets into creeks full of fish, snakes, and trash from towns upriver. Some years the Missouri took the whole bottom, rushing into our house so we had to get out fast with whatever we could carry. When the water went back down, we scraped mud off walls, scrubbed with strong bleach, and moved back in.Mama did that year after year. She learned to deal with floods. But the snake pushed her over the edge. She didn't want to live in a house where snakes could come and go as they pleased.Daddy said we couldn't afford to live anywhere else. We owned the old house on River Street and some years the water didn't get in it at all.It wasn't an argument, or even a discussion. Daddy made the decision. Mama lived with it - and a whole lot more.Snakes in the Kitchen is an early childhood memoir of growing up poor in the early 1950's, in Mokane Missouri. It's a story of one woman's efforts, against all odds, to pull her children out of the mud and into a house with indoor plumbing.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Snakes in the Kitchen. To get started finding Snakes in the Kitchen, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: We were "river rats" - that's what they called us. We lived in the bottoms, close to the railroad tracks and the Missouri River.Nearly every year the river flooded and turned our dirt streets into creeks full of fish, snakes, and trash from towns upriver. Some years the Missouri took the whole bottom, rushing into our house so we had to get out fast with whatever we could carry. When the water went back down, we scraped mud off walls, scrubbed with strong bleach, and moved back in.Mama did that year after year. She learned to deal with floods. But the snake pushed her over the edge. She didn't want to live in a house where snakes could come and go as they pleased.Daddy said we couldn't afford to live anywhere else. We owned the old house on River Street and some years the water didn't get in it at all.It wasn't an argument, or even a discussion. Daddy made the decision. Mama lived with it - and a whole lot more.Snakes in the Kitchen is an early childhood memoir of growing up poor in the early 1950's, in Mokane Missouri. It's a story of one woman's efforts, against all odds, to pull her children out of the mud and into a house with indoor plumbing.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Snakes in the Kitchen. To get started finding Snakes in the Kitchen, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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