I Love You, Miss Huddleston, and Other Inappropriate Longings... by Philip Gulley

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. 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. They looked quite happy, except that their hair was on fire. I Love You, Miss Huddleston: and Other Inappropriate Longings of My Indiana Childhood. Gulleys memoir, I Love You, Miss Huddleston: And Other Inappropriate Longings. I Love You, Miss Huddleston: And Other Inappropriate Longings of My Indiana Childhood by Philip Gulley at. 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. visitors will find a book, or many more books, to enjoy at their leisure. Philip Gulley muses about old Quaker widows, the Thanksgiving table, child labor laws, childhood crushes, and occasional streaks of lawlessness. 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. Laugh out loud funny this memoir about growing up in small town Indiana during the seventies is an absolute blast. Kindle 6.99 Rate this book I Love You, Miss Huddleston, and Other Inappropriate Longings of My Indiana Childhood Philip Gulley 3.

I Love You, Miss Huddleston, and Other Inappropriate Longings... by Philip Gulley