Is it possible for a blow to the head to cause free thinking? Maybe shake a screw loose? I grew up in a family of nine just outside Montgomery, Alabama. When I was not quite three years old I fell ...voir plusIs it possible for a blow to the head to cause free thinking? Maybe shake a screw loose? I grew up in a family of nine just outside Montgomery, Alabama. When I was not quite three years old I fell from a family tree house and landed on my head. While in high school I questioned some of the Jim Crow racial practices and was labeled a "free thinker" by my family. Could it be that I "fell" into free thinking? After my Fall from the Tree House: a Memoir examines dozens of funny or engaging experiences involving family, friends, classmates, fellow sailors and Marines, and fellow teachers. Today, as a retired Professor of English, I live in the beautiful north Georgia mountains with Annelise, my wife of fifty-one years and, some say, my keeper.
Harris is also the author of Chinaberry Summer: Riverton, Alabama, 1947. In this novel the River Road Rangers look forward to a summer free from teacher demands but learn that Life is the most demanding teacher of all.voir moins