Anecdotes and Antidotes: People I ve Known or Known of Including Myself

Skip Eisiminger

ISBN 10: 1947175130 / ISBN 13: 9781947175136

Published by Serving House Books, 2019

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306 pages. 8.00x5.25x0.77 inches. In Stock.

Seller Inventory # zk1947175130

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Anecdotes and Antidotes: People I ve Known or Known of Including Myself
• Publisher: Serving House Books
• Publication Date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1947175130
• ISBN 13: 9781947175136
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Brand New
• Weight: 0.42 kilograms

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Synopsis

When it comes to a good story, I’m an elephant served a single salted peanut. I suspect I’m no different than most in this respect, but test yourself to see if I’m right: read “The Dean’s Story” and ask yourself if you aren’t hungry for more.“Heirs to the Vlasic pickle fortune, Dean Howard Cox and his wife, Roxy, lived many years on a boggy acre with a stream meandering through their front yard in Clemson. Both were long-time wildflower enthusiasts living as they were on the banks of a small Lake Hartwell tributary. So, when Lake Jocassee in the mountains to the north began rising toward ‘full pond,’ and a friend whose property was scheduled to be inundated invited the dean to transplant a few Oconee Bells, Howard leapt at the opportunity to assist an endangered species. “After several hours of digging and hauling the plants to the trunk of his Bentley Continental, he headed home in muddy clothes and boots. On the way back, he stopped in a country grocery to buy a soft drink and a pack of peanuts. As he waited to pay, the customer in front of him dropped a dime. Always the gentleman, Howard picked it up and offered it to its owner. Said he after giving his deanship a quick assessment, ‘Keep it—you look like you need it more than I do.’ “So, Howard quietly pocketed the coin, paid for his purchases, and went back to his car. As he was preparing to leave, the careless customer tapped on the driver’s-side window of the dean’s Bentley. As Howard was rolling down his window, the man said, ‘I want my dime back.’”There are dozens more like this one which I’ve collected over forty years in and out of academe.