I Love You, Miss Huddleston: And Other Inappropriate Longings of My Indiana Childhood

by Gulley, Philip

• ISBN13: 9780061809552
• ISBN10: 0061809551
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publications

Summary

With his ear for the small town and his knack for finding the needle of humor in life's haystack, Philip Gulley might well be Indiana's answer to Missouri's Mark Twain. In I Love You, Miss Huddleston we are transported to 1970's Danville, Indiana, the everyone-knows-your-business town where Gulley still lives today, to witness the uproarious story of Gulley's young life, including his infatuation with his comely sixth-grade teacher, his dalliance with sin-eating meat on Friday and inappropriate activities with a mannequin named Ginger-and his checkered start with organized religion. Sister Mary John had shown us a flannelgraph of the apostles receiving the Holy Spirit on the day of Pentecost. They looked quite happy, except that their hair was on fire. . . . I was suspicious of a religion whose highpoint was the igniting of one's head, and my enthusiasm for church, which had never been great, began to fade. Even as Kennedy was facing down Khrushchev, Danny Millardo and his band of youthful thugs conducted a reign of terror still unmatched in the annals of Indiana history. With Gulley's sharp wit and keen observation, I Love You, Miss Huddleston captures these dramas and more, revisiting a childhood of unrelieved and happy chaos. From beginning to end, Gulley recalls the hilarity (and heightened dangers) of those wonder years and the easy charm of midwestern life.

Author Biography

Philip Gulley is the bestselling author of Front Porch Tales and the acclaimed Harmony series, as well as If Grace Is True and If God Is Love, Coauthored with James Mulholland. He and his wife, Joan, live in Indiana with their sons, Spencer and Sam.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. v
My Perilous Start	p. 1
Our New Digs	p. 8
Dreams of Greatness	p. 17
My Pointless Suffering	p. 26
Big Business	p. 35
Vacations	p. 42
My Family Tree, Imagined and Otherwise	p. 53
Miss Huddleston	p. 62
Carnival	p. 72
My Dalliance With Religion	p. 82
Halloween	p. 92
Old Men	p. 99
My Many Shames	p. 107
My Sporadic Uprisings	p. 115
Bicycle Glories	p. 126
Mildred	p. 135
The Faith of My Father	p. 145
Bill and Bunny	p. 151
Government Work	p. 161
My Grocery Days	p. 169
Driving	p. 179
The Blizzard	p. 186
Leaving Home	p. 194
Epilogue	p. 199
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