Front Row Kid is a memoir of a curious boy growing up in Manitowoc, Wisconsin during the early 1950s. The author includes humorous first-hand accounts of what it was like to be part of a carefree, tight knit community where shop keepers knew all the kids by name, where school teachers were kindly guardians, and where kids could freely create their own unsupervised adventures. Front Row Kid harkens back to an America that has been left behind. Kerry A Trask, author of Fire Within: A Civil War Narrative from Wisconsin, includes an illuminating Foreword about the perspective of history written by some of the least among us--namely, the perspective of a roughneck boy from the impoverished margins of small-town America.