This is the story of Hood Street, a tale of great personal strength as well as great personal failings. Hood Street is a cosmos of infinite magnitude as well as infinite limitations.
Hood Street is a collection of houses, built out of hope in a time of hope. It is a real street, part of a real neighborhood, Pine Point, part of a real city, Springfield, Massachusetts.
This book is based on real life events that occurred primarily in the 1920's, 30's and 40's, thinly veiled by an overlay of fiction. It was written in memory of my maternal grandparents Edward and Annie DeGuise, who built a house and made their home a place of love and welcome at 124 Hood Street from 1924 until their deaths in 1955 and 1963 respectively.
Walk with me down this dusty, unpaved street to another time, where within every house there was a story, behind every door a dream.
Welcome, dear reader, to Hood Street....
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