Fetched-Up Yankee: A New England Boyhood Remembered

A Vermont farm in the 1930s where ``the 20th century was late in arriving'' is the backdrop for this boy's-eye view of his ``fetching up'' (i.e., the way he was raised). In the one-room schoolhouse where memorization was the learning style, or avoiding an attack rooster on the 15-mile walk to get there, Hill, a freelance writer, offers pithy, humorous scenes of a perhaps gentler time. Amusing anecdotes include an account of ``rubbering,'' or listening in on the newfangled party line. Couched in Yankee cadences, these vivid recollections preserve the hardships as well as the pleasures of growing up in rural America during the Depression. (Sept.)