The Linthead (Paperback)

In the 1930s and 1940s, most Southern towns and cities had cotton mills. Inside those mills, the lint from the cotton floated freely in the air and often stuck to the men and women who worked the mill. Thus, the nickname Linthead was born. In The Linthead, author Charles Edmund 'Hoot' Sauls recounts the story of the good times and the hard times of a boy living in the Great Depression-era South. He tells of how he survived the depression years in the small cotton mill town of Fullerville, Georgia; the cotton mill employees played an important part in his early boyhood to his young manhood years. Readers will gain an insight into the lives of those souls as they worked together and played together. Most of all, these people learned to share with each other; not only material things, but a genuine closeness, which came from mutual respect for one another through loving and caring.