"Sidney Hall, Jr. is one of those thoughtful, intimate writers you become friends with instantly. His wonderful
Small Town Tales remembers the Sixties, not as the turbulent decade that got into the history books, but as a time of gentle wonder for a boy coming of age in what already seems - change coming so fast now - a vanished paradise." —W.D. Wetherell
"Sidney Hall, Jr. proves that real family values transcend the political cliche. Small Town Tales is . . . a genuine record of a fine way to raise children, be a family, live a life. It's nostalgia with a twist." —Rebecca Rule
"... [a] deeply moving account of growing up...Hall's philosophical, multi-layered insights transcend geography. They have a universal appeal." —Jack Barnes, Columnist
"Funny stories...by a poet of some distinction." —Geoffrey Elan, Yankee Magazine
"A door on childhood." —Ralph Jimenez, Boston Sunday Globe
"In his book, Small Town Tales: A Brookline Boyhood, Hall has created a memorial to childhood and small town living in general, and to his father in specific. . . a touching paean on the poignancy of life, death, and the ethereal essences that survive even as we become adults...
"The book is as light or as heavy as you want it to be. Hall's prose is poetic and complex, yet makes for easy reading. You could pick up one of these three-page essays a day, or sit down and read the whole book in less than two hours." —Christine Halvorson,
The Monadnock Ledger
