Clyde Bolton - Hadacol Days: A Southern Boyhood |
Clyde Bolton has long been a dean of the Southern sports writing community. Now this popular columnist focuses his beguiling prose on his boyhood memories in the delightful memoir, Hadacol Days. The title is taken from a high school cheer: “Statham Wildcats on the Ball, They’ve Been Drinking Hadacol.” The Statham in the cheer refers to Statham High School, Statham Georgia, now as long gone as Hadacol, but equally effervescent in the author’s nostalgic but clearheaded look back at what life was like in small Southern towns of the 1940s and 1950s.
In a lesser writer’s hands, this raw material might not amount to more than sentiment. But Bolton isn’t just any writer. He is the author of six novels and a dozen nonfiction books about football, auto racing, and other subjects. Thus, when he writes about driving with his parents into Atlanta to see the fabled minor league Crackers play baseball, you get a tale that recreates the sights, sounds, and smells of the stadium, but then you also get a history of the Crackers and baseball. In Hadacol Days, Bolton’s attention to detail is focused on the simple activities and pleasures of childhood and adolescence in Statham and other small towns of that time and place—representative of the experiences of a generation of Southern young people in the middle of the twentieth century.
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