Run, Run, Run!

RUN, RUN, RUN! is the unedited diary of a deaf Long Island teenager who defied doctors orders painful trick knee and ran all winter from 1940-1941 on his own, making the high school track team in spring and challenging for the county championship which he wonBut the diary covers much more. Even though it's from a before - TV, - computer, and - cell phone era, there was excitement: Sailing, swimming, and cavorting on Great South Bay; trips to the Jersey Shore, teenage love, the daily in's and out's of high school affairs, Lt. Col. Norths work on a secret underground airport (still secret in 2010-11) all on the eve of the Second World War. Open this book and you'll meet the boys and girls of a typical 1940s Long Island high school.