Charlie's Days: Recollections of a One-time Farm Boy - How It Was on the Orange-Sullivan Border Back in the l920s and 1930s

"Have you ever noticed that people who look back at their childhood and youth with real pleasure are usually having a great time now? Charlie Crist, who is supposed to have retired five years ago, always has at least two jobs. (One of them is being an active journalist for this newspaper. His Column, "Charlie's Days," appears every Tuesday, and his "Sportsmen's Notebook" every Friday.) He always was and still is an avid outdoorsman. He nmust have learned how to make the most of nature back on hte farm he writes about with so much love - the farm Mom and Pop made into a wonderful home for a growing family back when this country was more than 50 years younger. If you are over 50, you'll love Charlie's reminders of how it was. If you're under 50, you'll get the real savor and substance of country life hereabouts in those days, when times were tougher in some ways but the nation's problems were also a lot simpler..." - The Sullivan County Democrat