Home Front
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In You Can’t Go Home Again, Thomas Wolfe says, “Some things will never change. Some things will always be the same. Lean down your ear upon the earth and listen.” C. D. Peterson’s Homefront: A Memoir from WWII permits all of us to lean down and listen as daily life unfolds for ordinary people on a New England dairy farm during the 40’s. We are introduced to the Peterson family: Douglas, the youngest—about 8 when the story starts and the voice of the author—his mother, Edie, his father, Harry, Uncle Carl, (every inch a Swede), his grandfather Enoch, known as Pop, and his grandmother always called “The Boss” because nothing on the farm escaped her eye. C. D. Peterson offers his reason for capturing the gentle nostalgia of this particular time and place: “… I am among the ‘last ones.” Born in the 30s, we are the last ones who personally experienced the scarcity of the Depression, the fear and patriotism during World War II, and the exuberance in the brief pretelevision, postwar period when we felt safe and when the middle class was born.”Home Front moves through a tenuous connection of episodes with slender threads of the author’s memory—sentimental without being maudlin. Men are joining the Navy, including his own father. Japanese Americans on the west coast are being placed into internment camps. A school classmate claims that a German sub was seen off Cape Cod, and another classmate is absent for days because her father isn’t coming home. Douglas hardly notices the slow changes as he matures. What seems to be constant is Hillcrest Farm – his farm. Crops need planting, hay needs cutting, cows need milking; milk needs pasteurizing; bottles need filling, customers need deliveries, and milk men need the kids who run from the truck to doorsteps with the wire baskets holding the clanking bottles.Such is the daily cycle of a dairy farm. However, the lateral events,
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