Sunday Afternoon on the Porch: Reflections of a Small Town in Iowa, 1939-1942 (Bur Oak Book)
“Everett Kuntz captures well a time when small-town life is about to change, a time between two eras, when the residents enjoy the security of a small community. His images remind us more exactly what the past looked like, not exactly as we remember it, but as it was at the time. Then we may truly know the place from which we came.”—Dwight Hoover, author,A Good Day's Work: An Iowa Farm in the Great Depression"These pictures, resting like treasures in a time capsule from 1939 until now, are delights. They will take you backward almost 70 years. They show you the faces, fields, and porches of an America before World War II, a rural, almost innocent world. A little nostalgic? So what. Never has a country needed a little sane nostalgia more than this one. The photographs are garnished by Jim Heynen’s quick, witty, affectionate commentary. It nudges us smartly into the time capsule ourselves. If 2007 looks insane to you, peruse for a while this lovely, charming book that reminds us of what we used to look like—even sometimes be like." —Bill Holm