Things You Need to Hear: Collected Memories of Growing Up in Arkansas, 1890-1980
"Margaret Bolsterli … has provided not only the informants' stories but also a manner to convey them as an historical aggregate, combining the personal and historical in such a way that neither is diminished. A fine accomplishment and an entertaining read."--Michael Hodge inArkansas Review, August 2013"A richly textured sense of everyday life and how it changed -- or on some fronts, failed to change -- over time… a unique piece of social history that other states would do well to emulate."--John C. Inscoe inArkansas Historical Quarterly"An engaging and accessible collection of photographs and oral history interviews with forty-one Arkansans … just might convince some suburban Arkansas teenager to turn off his or her computer for a minute and to listen to these 'things you need to hear.'"--Journal of Southern History, November 2012"Margaret Jones Bolsterli has a knack for locating interesting and knowledgeable people to interview, and she also asks the right questions of her informants, questions that delve deeply into the lives of Arkansans in the last century. This is an important book, and it adds considerably to the knowledge of our state."--Tom Dillard, author ofStatesmen, Scoundrels, and Eccentrics: A Gallery of Amazing Arkansans