Black Cotton
Growing up in the fifties
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I began to worry a little when we were just a mile from the Rock Wool plant and the train wasn’t slowing down. Not to worry, they probably stop pretty sudden like anyway. When we passed the Rock Wool plant doing about 50 miles per hour, I knew we’d had it. What happened? Train stopped here every day. Seen ‘em do it a thousand times. Glory Be! What now? Davey’s face was a little green when I sneaked a look in his direction. I knew it! I knew it! He kept saying. You’ve done it again. I won’t be able to sit down for a month when my daddy gets through walloping me. Oh Lordy! Where we going? How we gonna get home. Won’t ever get home! Oh Lordy. Won’t ever see Momma again. What we gonna eat? Shut up, I says. This train gotta stop somewhere ain’t it? When it stops, we get off and walk home. That’s all there is to it.
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About the Book
Black Cotton is a collection of short stories that depict actual events in the life of the author. The setting for the stories is the small town of Mill Creek, Oklahoma in the 1950's and early 1960's. Small town life is seen through the eyes of a young boy as he experiences a variety of adventures and learns some hard lessons as well. The stories strive to capture the flavor of living in a much slower time, and the people who made up small town America over five decades ago.
About the Author
Ted Pittman, writing under the pen name "Peter Lynn" grew up in small town America in the 1950's and 1960's. He is married with four grown children and nine grandchildren. Ted is a business manager and has worked for the same company for nearly forty years. He still resides in southern Oklahoma, not far from the small town that is the setting of this book. He still enjoys many of the pursuits described in "Black Cotton" and enjoys family and the outdoors. The title of this book came from the name of Ted's first horse at the age of five. The horse, by the way, was a sorrel.