In Second Age, you’re pulled into travel and adventure in the 1930’s.
The author floated part way down the Mississippi during the Great Depression, with adventure, good times, and hard times along the way.
Then he worked as a bellboy on the President Coolidge, to cities and ports in the Far East.
Second Age is simply written, and you live the author’s adventures when he was a student and as a young man. He and a friend worked their way in a shanty boat part way down the Upper Mississippi. Then he traveled to San Francisco and to the Far East.
He re-lived all this while he was writing about it when he was in his late 80’s. He re-experienced places and felt how they were. He felt love, happiness, and fear, he knew smells and tastes all over again, and he felt sunlight, storms, cold and damp.
We often forget how to enjoy the simple necessities of life. Second Age takes us to a time when eating oatmeal and raisins, having a warm place to be, hearing red-winged blackbirds calling, meeting new people, and seeing new places are enough to touch the heart, mind, and soul.
There is a place in each of us that needs to know the importance of appreciating what you have in your life.
The author wrote in a warm and personal manner. His book evokes a time of simpler living and firm values. You experience a joy and a depth in what life has to offer and in what it has to teach.
Table of Content
Introduction
Part I
The Floating House
Downriver
Across Lake Pepin to Wisconsin
River Ice Begins
Winter in the Shelter of the Wing Dam
Spring Thaw
Farewell to the Floating House
Part II
Out to San Francisco
The President Coolidge
Through the Inland Sea
Under the Southern Cross
Last Voyages on the President Coolidge
A Little about People and Times
Index
About the author
Carl Franson was one of ten children of whom seven survived, born to hard-working, first generation immigrants. Working to make his way in life was second nature to him. He possessed an intense curiosity about life, people, and natural wonders around him. This openness comes through in his story about his life as a young man on the upper Mississippi and travels to the Far East.When he began to write about those experiences, he was in his eighties but he found himself pacing the floor, remembering details of adventures, tasting how delicious very simple foods are when you’re very hungry, appreciating the warmth and goodness of people he met along the way, appreciating the sights and sounds of the Mississippi and of the Far East.
He was a good natured person who appreciated and kept a positive rather than a negative outlook about people and life, who was a realist, but who believed above all else in the fundamental power of love.
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