Hadacol Days: A Southern Boyhood Review

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Hadacol Days: A Southern Boyhood ReviewClyde Bolton is a gift--a gift to the South and to all who understand and appreciate the true family values of southern life, not the trumped up "family values" of today's politicized society.
It does take a village to raise a child, and Bolton again writes lovingly and with keen perception and appreciation that only comes from age, experience and time. We are all the sum total of our experiences and the people in our lives.
Clyde Bolton was lucky to have the people of Statham in his life, and we are lucky, even fortunate and blessed, to have Clyde Bolton in our lives.
Whether we are from Statham,Ga.,Gordo, Ala., Bug Tussle, or points in between, this is a book that will bring back memories, stir and restore our souls--with gratitude and appreciation for the people, places and times that made us who we are and what we are.
This book--yet another gift from the heart, mind, soul and pen of Clyde Bolton.
Hadacol Days: A Southern Boyhood OverviewThe title of Clyde Bolton's warm memoir of his formative years is taken from a high-school cheer: ''Statham Wildcats on the ball/They've been drinking Hadacol.'' If you know what Hadacol is, Bolton cheerfully admits, that dates both you and him; if you don't, ask your parents or grandparents. The Statham in the cheer refers to Statham High School, now as long gone as Hadacol but equally effervescent in the author's nostalgic but clearheaded look back at what life was like in small Southern towns of the 1940s and 1950s. In a lesser writer's hands, this raw material might not amount to more than sentiment. But Bolton isn't just any writer. He is the dean of Southern sports columnists and the author of six novels and a dozen nonfiction books about football, auto racing, and other subjects. Over a journalism career spanning five decades, he became one of the most widely read and respected writers in the region. Thus, when he writes about driving with his parents into Atlanta to see the fabled minor-league Crackers play baseball, he re-creates the sights, sounds, and smells of the stadium and also spins a history of the Crackers. Such storytelling reveals how Bolton, a schoolboy athlete, became a successful sportswriter. In Hadacol Days, his attention to detail is equally focused on the simple pleasures of childhood in Statham and other small towns of that time and place, representative of the experiences of a generation of Southern young people in the middle of the 20th century.

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