Harold Cooler reflects on the good (but hard) times of his formative years in the lowcountry: his family's struggles for stability during the Great Depression while they lived in small towns and on various plantations in rural South Carolina. The results of his efforts provide unique insight into the social and economic realities of the times, as well as lively portraits of people of rare personal qualities.

The book includes illustrations of these people and places by the author, as well as a Bonus DVD, which includes four entertaining selections from Albert Stoddard's "Animal Tales Told in the Gullah Dialect," an entertaining and informative video of the history of the oyster industry in Chesapeake Bay, and more, all for only $20 (plus $4 s/h).