The Old Yellow House Anthology: 1935-1945

About the Book

The years leading up to World War II were difficult. The Great Depression enveloped the entire country driving men to desperate measures to provide for their families. When World War II began, many essentials for living, already scarce or unaffordable were rationed for the war effort.  The author spent these years living in an old ramshackle house in the small Florida town of Auburndale. This book is a collection of anecdotes with which people of that era will identify and appreciate.  Others will enjoy the poignant; sometimes humorous adventures of a barefoot boy during the years 1935 to 1945, a time of great challenges and a time of human sacrifice not endured since the Civil War.

About the Author

Earnest Brant Mercer BPS MBA was born on a sharecropper’s farm in Alabama.  He migrated with his family to Auburndale Florida in 1935 during the hard times of the Great Depression where he remained until graduation from high school.  His career spanned thirty years with IBM Corporation before returning to his home town.  He was Executive Director for the Auburndale Chamber of Commerce for five years, consulted with American companies in Asia for five years, taught in the Graduate School of Business at Webber International University, Babson Park, Florida for five years and was conferred a Doctor of Business Administration for his work there. He has written five books:

A Cabin on the Mountain: Memoir

Misadventures of a Country Boy: Memoir

Old Yellow Hand: Sci-Fi horror

Skivvy Girl: Romance in post-war Japan