Uphill Both Ways: Overcoming Difficulties... With Lots of Help

This is a real life story of a kid struggling with illness and difficult school experiences while growing up in rural Randolph County during the Great Depression. Macon became a "Hill Climber" with a great family, an outstanding career, an unusual military experience during World War II, an active church leader, and an effective community volunteer worker on projects related to his church and his college (First Baptist Church and Guilford College in Greensboro, NC). This is a story of struggles, but a story of success and accomplishment. It can be a learning tool for readers because it is told in unvarnished truth with candor and humor from firsthand experiences, Well illustrated with 22 photographs.