{"product_id":"back-there-where-the-past-charles-champlin-9780815606123","title":"Back There Where the Past Was: A Small-Town Boyhood","description":"\u003cp\u003eFor Charles Champlin, formerly a writer-correspondent for \u003ci\u003eTime\u003c\/i\u003e and Life magazines and since 1965 an editor and columnist for the \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times, \u003c\/i\u003e his \"other time\" was the nineteen-thirties. His \"other place,\" where he was born and spent his boyhood and early adolescence, was the lovely Finger Lakes village of Hammondsport in western New York State. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIts population was, and is, 1,200, and it was a fine place to grow up: Keuka Lake to swim in, band concerts in the park on Saturday nights, wagonloads of grapes rumbling through town to the wineries, which continue to make fine champagnes and wines. Glenn Hammond Curtiss manufactured airplanes there in the early years of the century, and in the thirties you could watch planes practice looping the loop on summer afternoons. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOver the years, Champlin's reminiscences about Hammondsport in his newspaper columns have evoked warm response. Readers who grew up thousands of miles from Steuben County, New York, say they find echoes of their own times and their own places in his tales of home.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Charles Champlin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0815606125\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780815606123\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Syracuse University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/01\/1999\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 232\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.88lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.62d","brand":"Charles Champlin","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43947323490559,"sku":"9780815606123","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_8c854b6b-2a83-4f6e-a1c4-07cc0c2399a1.jpg?v=1681518041","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/back-there-where-the-past-charles-champlin-9780815606123","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}