Stand By: The Story of a Boy's Achievement in Radio

Stand By: The Story of a Boy's Achievement in Radio

There it stooda great glass wheel, half submerged in the dusty clutter of an old outhouse filled with broken chairs, moth-eaten strips of carpet, and a tangle of ancient harness. Lee Renaud, spider webs draping his black hair and the dust of ages prickling at his nose, persisted in his efforts to clear this strange mechanism of its weight of junk. At last it was freed, a three-foot circular sheet of glass mounted on a framework of brass and wood. Held against the wheel by slips of wood were pads of some kind of fur, now worn to a few stray hairs and bits of hide. The circle of glass turned on an axis of wood which passed through its center, and attached to this was a series of cogwheels and a handle for cranking the whole affairat considerable speed, it appeared. But then the boy had found everything here at Kings Cove strange and outlandish. Kings Cove! It sounded rather elegant. Instead, it consisted of a handful of shacks that housed a little village of farming and fishing folk, an ignorant people given over to poverty and superstition. Kings Cove had been aristocratic in its past. A fringe of rotting, semi-roofless big houses up beyond the cove testified to the long-gone past when a settlement of rich folk had set out great orange orchards and camphor groves in that strip of South Alabama that touches the Gulf of Mexico. All had gone well until the historic freeze of 1868 had ruined the tropic fruits and emptied the purses of the settlers. After that, the population steadily drifted away from Kings Cove. Squatters came in to fish and to scratch the soil for a living. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

Product details

Ebook Number: 45490
Author: McAlister, Hugh
Release Date: Apr 25, 2014
Format: eBook
Language: English