Mail frauds, April Fools, and ‘Jaws’ in the toilet An excerpt from Jim Trelease’s family memoir, Looking Backward, used by permission of the author. Most of this chapter is set in Springfield, Massachusetts. * AS I wrote earlier, my family was into jokes, starting with the practical ones we played on our unsuspecting mother. Adulthood just gave us more time, money, and nerve for bigger ones. An early lesson was not to let them get out of hand— something I...
