High Water
A Memoir
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It started in Maine with nothing more eventful than 3 high school kids skipping school to propel an old Ford to Florida with a total of $150.00 traveling money. We almost ended up in jail in GA. courtesy of the “Yankee” Maine plates. We cut wood at the Salvation Army to earn food and spent time as a bootlegger for peach moonshine. This career was brought to an end by a sympathetic IRS revenue agent but not before it paid for part of my law school education. I was treated to knowledge of other than legal proceeding happening at the Pentagon and learned that you don’t do things that the politician/criminal don’t want you to do without suffering the consequences such as disappearing. And the story continues with all facets of life being touched.
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Richard and his two best friends—Ed and Bob—had it all figured out when they left their homes in Kennebunkport, Maine, for the warmer climes of Daytona Beach, Florida. The high schoolers had realized that their parents knew nothing. They could surely make their own decisions. In High Water, Spitz recalls that fateful trip in the 1950s, when gasoline was seventeen cents a gallon, good hamburgers were a quarter, and segregation was commonplace. While he enjoyed many adventures, the boys eventually returned home. Spitz’s father, however, had not changed, and without warning, he’d often yell and hit his wife. Spitz’s mother reacted as though it were all part of the routine. Desperate for money and with no allowance after having run away, Spitz and his friends hit upon a creative way to earn cash: They’d kill deer and sell carcasses to men who had pretended to go hunting but were really fooling around on their wives or playing cards and couldn’t return home empty handed. Spitz looks back at a time long gone, sharing life lessons in this coming-of-age story that made him the man he is today.
About the Author
Richard Spitz believes that what you expect from life is not what you get. You have to live it to know it. The author has had more than his share of living and events. He currently lives in Port Orange, Florida.