or enjoy a soda at a drugstore
The jelly jungle of orange marmalade  that white folks nostalgically recall growing up in Cumberland has been penetrated by the grim reality that blacks faced growing up in what was at one time Maryland's second largest city. Although a Facebook Page Growing Up In Cumberland, Maryland, with over 4,000 members who are predominantly white, has its elder members gush over the movie theatres, restaurants and swimming pools that once adorned this town when it was a thriving city, overlooked are the roadblocks that blacks faced when they would want to attend a movie, or go swimming, or enjoy a soda at a drugstore. Thank goodness Lynn Bowman did some extensive research and the result is this marvelous book, which pulls no punches. History cannot be ignored or smoothed over and events buried like they never existed. Living A Lie brings out things that most people didn't realize happened...and I highly recommend it.
Rating: 5 stars