5-Star review in entirety posted at Amazon for my Sixties Nonfiction Memoir Collection, '100 Wild Mushrooms: Memoirs of the '60s':
Being a child of the sixties, Eva Pasco writes a mostly light-hearted memoir that takes her readers on a whimsical ride through those simpler years! She eloquently reminisces about her childhood, growing up in a loving family that enjoyed Sunday afternoon rides to Dairy Queen, and family outings. I connected with the Easter outfits she wore as I too wore matching dresses, white gloves and patent leather shoes.
“100 Wild Mushrooms Memoirs of the 60s” is not all rosy though, Ms. Pasco writes several chapters with a more serious tone; one chapter in particular is about that November day, when our President, John F. Kennedy was shot and killed. Those black and white images that we all saw on our little TVs with rabbit ears still are vivid in my mind. Although younger, I do remember that day very clearly too. I was a young girl, having my bangs trimmed in a beauty parlor and will never forget my mother and everyone around sobbing as they heard the news.
I marveled at Ms. Pasco’s clever description of her “Easters” growing up.
“… My family’s celebration of Easter was hard-boiled in tradition. However, Peter Cottontail hippity hoppin’ down the bunny trail, or a scavenger hunt never “pastel-whipped’ my childhood. Ultimately, Easter was to dye for.”
I found myself smiling as I read, enjoying her trip down memory lane as it instigated pleasant memories of my own upbringing on the East coast of the US and driving down Route 1 in our family station wagon (with no seatbelts, mind you). I especially enjoyed the chapter, #My Summer Place because I too, spent my summers in cut-offs, t-shirts and my itsy bitsy teeny weeny yellow polka dot bikini on the shores of the Atlantic Ocean. It wasn’t until college that I also smeared Baby Oil all over my already tanned body!! Horrors!
Thank you Eva Pasco for my lovely trip through your memories as well as a journey through my own. If you lived during any part of the sixties, you will definitely enjoy this read and it will trigger sweet thoughts of your upbringing in a simpler time. I know I certainly did. I highly recommend this lovely read by a very talented author. I will certainly pick up her other books.
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