A Roads Scholar

About the Book

The following stories have been out of memory for so many years that minor errors may occur. However, each episode is based on truth but may be, at times, spiced up to prevent boredom. Dizzy Dean once said. “It ain’t braggin' if you done it.” That was okay for Dizzy to say. As you read this documentary you may think, with good reason, that some of the escapades don’t fall into the category of “bragging material.” In the area of Ontario around Georgian Bay, Grey County sprawls in an expanse encompassing the Blue Mountains and is bordered on the north by Georgian Bay. The principal rivers in Grey County are the Beaver, the Saugeen, the Mad, and the Sauble. The county is also endowed with numerous lakes. The main industry, as in any other rural area, is farming. Many areas of Grey County are remote and difficult to access. The Third Line of Osprey Township in the “dirty thirties” was about as remote as it gets. It was on the Third Line in nineteen thirty-two that I was born—Ivan Earl Young—on a stormy December day.

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