PECK'S BAD BOY - 1934 - JACKIE COOPER - RARE DVD

Some things change as the years pass, and some things do not. When I was a youngster my father showed me a picture of his father standing next to another man. My grandfather was part of a huge farming family and he had 20 brothers and sisters. One night he watched his younger brother Moses carefully place his shoes outside the back door of the farm house before going to bed. The next morning, his brother and best friend Moses was gone, never to be seen again.In the late 1800’s when a youngster ran away from home there was no general outcry for help to search for the youngster, and no one thought about organizing a search. Life much tougher then, and the cocoon of protection that we give to our children the first twenty or more years of their lives didn’t exist in most of rural America. Children became adults at a very young age and if they wanted to go out on their own, they did. Kids ran away from home more often than we might imagine in today’s world. It was just another part of life