Celeste Durham Wilson

The Wheels on the Truck Go Round and Around Celeste Durham Wilson

The Wheels on the Truck Go Round and Around, by Celeste Durham Wilson, is an ode to family. In this touching and often delightful memoir, Wilson introduces Winn Caudell, a farmer who, during the Depression, searched for a way to raise his six children to adulthood. In 1929, pulling together whatever funds he could muster, he bought a Ford cattle truck to haul his and other farmers' livestock to market. His children learned from their parents that hard work has its own rewards. Along the way, life interceded with the untimely deaths of three of the children, the economic downturn of the Great Depression, and the looming shadows of two wars. Through prsonal observations and revealing interviews with Winn's son Charles and his three children, the author sees how seeds planted on the family farm led to the harvest of success in a growing U. S. trucking industry.