From City Life to Country Life - A Disaster: It Walked Like Human, But It Was Not Human is the true account of the Kirtley family youth. In the 1940s and 1950s drama and strife struck the family, and the author moved to the countryside along with his brothers and sister. As they struggle through much character-building handwork, they often find food and money to be running short. From City Life to Country Life tells how the children dealt with these struggles as well as with their complicated relationships with their Grandma and Daddy. Additional adventure ensure with the appearance of a non-human creature. The creature, IT trolls the countryside, causing fear and anxiety. This is Harold Edwin Kirtley Jr. s account of IT .