Crum by Lee Maynard - SIGNED

There really is a town named Crum in West Virginia, and Lee Maynard (1936-2017) lived there as a kid. It is on the Big Sandy River. Maynard famously writes, "Across the river was Kentucky, a mysterious land of pig-fuckers." Yes, this book employs the scatological language that was used there - and I reckon everywhere - among adolescents. As a result it was banned at Tamarack - the tourist attraction that offers all kinds of West Virginia merchandise to travelers. Of course Lee Maynard was inordinately proud of how that action against his book boosted sales and helped create for him a triumphant writer's tour of the state as an "Outlaw."  Maynard actually lived a pretty charmed life. He dropped out of WVU and joined the Army, but while in the Army, he met his wife Helen, a native American. Then right after he returned and graduated from WVU,he was hired as the editor of West Virginia Conservation Magazine. Soon he became West Virginia's youngest secretary of a state department - their C