Storyville, USA - Softcover

This is a quirky, digressive, insightful, and extremely funny book.

Only a talented writer with a good sense of humor would come up with an idea like this. Dale Peterson encourages his research team--his children--not only to observe that which is in front of their eyes, but also to think about that which has gone. This book sounds a knell for the passing of so much that was of value in local cultures and local environments. Buy Storyville, USA and you will laugh, you will feel sad, and you will be the wiser. Buy it for your grandchildren so that they will grow up with a better understanding of their American heritage.

Storyville, USA is my favorite kind of book, inventive, fun, and so perfectly American. In it the three engaging characters light out for the territories to discover the town or village's history. Each story is then told in a humorous and yarn-spinning vernacular.

Dale Peterson guides us through an affectionate, wry, nostalgic odyssey across small-town USA. Delight and adventure attend this paean to idiosyncrasy, to all things counter, original, spare, strange, American-style: at once an adult's tribute to his childhood and a father's journey with his children.

Peterson has produced a unique work that is reminiscent of Steinbeck's Travels with Charley and Charles Kuralt's America; do your patrons a favor and offer them this witty, totally charming book.

This is a lovely, lively, funny book about being a stranger, a father, and an American. A delight.

Peterson has an appreciation for places off the beaten path and an eye for the minutiae of everyday life. . . . A warm father-child travelogue.

A wonderfully evocative picture of often forgotten towns.