Publisher's Synopsis
"Running Uphill emerged from the memories of a woman brought up on the shirttails of the De-pression and World War II, that time of great change for women who left jobs as domestics, secretaries, and teachers to move into war production jobs while the men were conscripted into military service. By the time Sally Bronski Childs graduated from high school and married Donald Bronski, a veteran of the Korean War, the 60s had brought cultural change-Woodstock, drugs, pop art, op art, abstract art, television and the Beatles. But with all the new freedom created by change, women still needed Gloria Steinem and MS. magazine to launch careers in what remained a man's world. In 1985, while employed full-time as a secretary, author Sally Childs joined with two other Mankato theater students to start a nonprofit theater company in the Twin Cities. They called it the Lyric Theater. Thus starts the development of the Lyric-from selling Freddie's Fud
