Growing Up on the Mississippi: The 1950s in Winona, Minnesota

“There is nothing quite as delicious as retrieving a lost memory and going over it and over it, gleaning every sweet detail. Your magic is in the details….long forgotten morsels of experiences like ‘sprinkling’ the lawn in the evening or sitting on the porch at the end of the day, and the name CEDRIC ADAMS! I was amazed to say this out loud. To me, it was always one word….Cedrik Adams.

“Ah!” – Claire F. Horton, Michigan

“Kent Stever draws complete pictures of the scenes of our childhood. His stories of growing up in a small town in the Midwest will bring all the wonder and innocence of the ’50’s back to the reader.” – Frances Edstrom, Publisher, Winona Post

Kent Stever takes you by the hand for a stroll back in time to a simpler place, one sprinkled with nostalgia and fond remembrances. His writing conjures up images so exact you’ll swear you’re sitting at a soda fountain sipping on a cherry Coke while he tells his tales.” – Mike Nistler, Publisher, Minnesota Moments Magazine

Kent Stever has a myriad of interests.  A hometown and occasional columnist for a newspaper and a recognized, regional magazine writer, this is Kent’s first book.  He is a writer, longtime educator and a person of multiple hobbies.He relishes his memories and joys of neighbors, friends and community members who mutually supported one another.  He continues to develop short stories and histories of small town life in Winona, a river town in Minnesota.  With a focus on the 1950s, he says,”We are a simple people who are to take the wonderful experiences that made us, absorb those experiences and pass them on.”  He does so in this book.It is a book for fans of small town life – anywhere!