Charles Champlin is a former writer-correspondent for Time and Life magazines. He was the editor columnist and film critic for the Los Angeles Times from 1965-1991. He is the author of A Life in Writing: The Story of an American Journalist also published by Syracuse University Press and The Movies Grow Up, 1940-1980.
In the 1930s, Hammondsport, New York, was a small town of only 1200, complete with as much local color as similar communities across the United States. Well-known film critic Champlin recounts his first 16 years in Hammondsport in a delightful narrative of growing up during the Depression. . . . Full of humor and revealing confessions, Champlin's entertaining book proves you can go home again. One of the best reminiscences to appear recently.
In the 1930s, Hammondsport, New York, was a small town of only 1200, complete with as much local color as similar communities across the United States. Well-known film critic Champlin recounts his first 16 years in Hammondsport in a delightful narrative of growing up during the Depression. The flood of the summer of 1935 provides one setting for the author's reflections on his home town: the seriousness of the flood is countered by the barrels of Prohibition brandy which the flood waters deposited around the streets of Hammondsport. Pioneer aviator Glenn Hammond Curtiss was a Hammondsport native; his early success at building airplanes earned the town its nickname, ``the cradle of aviation.'' Full of humor and revealing confessions, Champlin's entertaining book proves you can go home again. One of the best reminiscences to appear recently.-- Boyd Childress, Auburn Univ. Lib., Ala.
In the 1930s, Hammondsport, New York, was a small town of only 1200, complete with as much local color as similar communities across the United States. Well-known film critic Champlin recounts his first 16 years in Hammondsport in a delightful narrative of growing up during the Depression. . . . Full of humor and revealing confessions, Champlin's entertaining book proves you can go home again. One of the best reminiscences to appear recently.
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