You Did Okay
A Jericho Book
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Book Details
About the Book
You Did Okay is fiction set into real history. The story was written in honor of the author’s grandfather, Clarence Groner, and the author’s mother, Edith Marie Groner Platt. The geography used in the books is similar to that of the community in where Clarence Groner and Edith Marie Groner Platt and T. F. Platt, and others of the Groner and Platt families, resided through much of their lives. In real life Clarence and Edith for a time lived on a road called and Clarence worked briefly in a paper mill nearby. The timeframe for the story is 1948 through 1952, and features characters in their teens. One of the fictional characters depicts the trial and times of author T. F. Platt and much of what happens to him in the story is real. Romance is both exciting and troublesome for the teens as they dive head on into high school life. Part time jobs help to support dating and work as the nation begins importation of foreign oil. youngsters also join their parents in coping with a young girl who is mysteriously, and repeatedly, maimed; working desperately to resolve her dilemma. The Korean War grimily awaits each young man as he emerges from formal school ready to partake adulthood. You Did Okay is the eighth of the Jericho Books by T. F. Platt. stories are intended for adults and young adults.The tales do not include explicit sex and they omit profanity.
About the Author
T. F. Platt enjoyed his first writing success in grade school, discovering that he could entertain and hold an audience by reading aloud the story or skit that he’d written. Those experiences stuck with him as he went on through university, high school teaching, and thirty-one years as a college professor.
While a professor he served eleven years as the National Editor of an annual scientific periodical. Meanwhile he published articles in the scientific press where accuracy and clarity are paramount. In retirement his prose graces novels which he has named The Jericho Books. He also writes a weekly column, The Jubilant Professor, for an entertainment magazine. Like his books, his column features adventure, romance, humor, suspense, tragedy.
Mr. Platt logged many joyful hours piloting a Piper Cherokee Archer. Now the airplane is sold to younger eyes that feast the puffy cumulus. With an antique backhoe he enjoyed landscaping and re-landscaping their four acres, completing two recreational ponds and numerous lanes and bridges appropriate for golf cart navigation. Now the backhoe has transferred to abler hands and a n additional golf cart scoots over the fields and lanes.
He with Helen enjoy their home four acres in southern