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Melby, June.
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Melby, June.
Melby, June -- Childhood and youth.
Melby, June -- Family.
Miniature golf -- Wisconsin -- Waupaca.
Summer -- Wisconsin -- Waupaca.
Family-owned business enterprises -- Biography.
Popular culture -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
United States -- Social life and customs -- 1945-1970.
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Melby, June.
Melby, June.
Melby, June -- Childhood and youth.
Melby, June -- Family.
Miniature golf -- Wisconsin -- Waupaca.
Summer -- Wisconsin -- Waupaca.
Family-owned business enterprises -- Biography.
Popular culture -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
United States -- Social life and customs -- 1945-1970.
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My family and other hazards : a memoir / June Melby.
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Melby, June.
Henry Holt and Company, 2014.
Call #:
796
.3522
M517m
Subjects
Melby, June.
Melby, June -- Childhood and youth.
Melby, June -- Family.
Miniature golf -- Wisconsin -- Waupaca.
Summer -- Wisconsin -- Waupaca.
Family-owned business enterprises -- Biography.
Popular culture -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
United States -- Social life and customs -- 1945-1970.
ISBN:
9780805098310 (hc.)
Edition:
First edition.
Description:
300 pages ; 22 cm.
Summary:
"When June Melby was ten years old, her parents decided on a whim to buy the miniature golf course in the small Wisconsin town where they vacationed every summer. Without any business experience or outside employees, the family sets out to open Tom Thumb Miniature Golf to the public. Naturally, there are bumps along the way. June Melby recreates all the squabbling, confusion, and ultimately triumph, of one family's quest to build something together, and brings to life the joys of one of America's favorite pastimes. In sharp, funny prose, we get the hazards that taunted players at each hole, and the dedication and hard work that went into each one's creation. All the familiar delights of summer are here--snowcones and popcorn and long days spent with people you love. Melby's relationship with the course is love-hate from the beginning, given the summer's freedom it robs her of, but when her parents decide to sell the course years later, her panicked reaction surprises even her. Now an adult living in Hollywood, having flown the Midwest long ago, she flies back to the course to help run it before the sale goes through, wondering if she should try to stop it. As the clock ticks, she reflects on what the course meant to her both as a child and an adult, the simpler era that it represents, and the particular pains of losing your childhood home, even years after you've left it"--Provided by publisher.
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