Book 3: Jim Heynen - The One-Room Schoolhouse

I bought this book some time ago and this is a good collection of short stories of a gang of mean neighboring farm boys of different age.

I don't know if this is all autobiographical, Heynen was born in 1940 and he described in one story that electricity comes to a farm.

There are a few bib scenes mentioned (I count 4) but it is clear, that the boys wearing bibs all days except on sunday (but not barefeet).
I usually don't like short stories (you have to read between the lines and imagine even more than with novels), but they can be put together and describe well the rural and historical farm living, including watching and imitating dehorning, chopping off heads of chickens by the boys, using corn cobs as toilet paper animal torture and a frozen tongue on metal.

This would be great stories for making a movie. I have to read other books from him.

I have the German translation and later found snippets of the English one. I also found another book in which overalls legs make sounds when walking. And of course I have more books and movie with one-room schoolhouses.

https://biboverallsfilms.blogspot.com/2019/05/story-155-update-book-3-overalls-sounds.html

https://biboverallsfilms.blogspot.com/2017/10/book-66-ben-logan-land-remembers.html

https://biboverallsfilms.blogspot.com/2014/11/story-82-one-room-schoolhouse.html

https://biboverallsfilms.blogspot.com/2017/10/books-68-several-story-143-walking-in.html