Dave Crehore

As a young boy, Dave Crehore moved with his parents from northern Ohio to the shipbuilding town of Manitowoc on the shores of Wisconsin's Lake Michigan, where the Germanic inhabitants punctuate their conversations with "enso," the local radio station interrupts Beethoven for commercials, and the outdoors are a wellspring of enlightenment.
Crehore's stories of his youth in 1950s Wisconsin are peppered with engaging characters and a quiet wit. A...