5/26/2023 0 Comments I Love You, Miss Huddleston, and Other Inappropriate Longings... by Philip Gulley![]() Gulley, better known as “Norm and Gloria’s boy,” mowed lawns for Quaker widows, waxed Dad’s car, played pranks, daydreamed about teacher Huddleston and beheld, in awe, the girls of Danville. Dad was a gregarious sort and a great bug-spray salesman. His hometown was populated with pals like Suds and Peanuts, relations like Cousin Pooner and sister Chick, assorted citizens like Officer Charley and Orville the grocer. ![]() In the style of the late Jean Shepherd, though Gulley is a tad more mannerly, the memoir speaks of bicycles, dogs, an outhouse or two, Halloween mischief, the local funeral parlor and the 4-H Club carnival. The Hoosier hamlet also boasted its native “Doc Gibbs.” Corn, cattle and laboratory mice were its chief products. Danville was evidently a sister village to that depicted in Thornton Wilder’s elegiac Our Town. ![]() ![]() Gulley ( Porch Talk: Stories of Decency, Common Sense, and Other Endangered Species, 2007, etc.) admits, his “is not a careful narrative” of the good old days in a small town down the road a bit from Indianapolis. A pastor recalls his idyllic youth in America’s heartland.Īs Quaker Rev. ![]()
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