Gum-Dipped: A Daughter Remembers Rubber Town

This book tells the story of growing up in the rubber community of Firestone Park in Akron, Ohio – the former Rubber Capital of the World. The book begins with the rededication of the bronze Harvey Firestone statue on 3 August 2000, at the Centennial celebration for the Firestone Tire & Rubber Company. The statue – perched high on a hill at the entrance to Firestone Park, the residential community Harvey built for his workers in 1915 – was sacred to the author, Joyce Coyne Dyer, and her father, Tom Coyne, during the fifties, a time when the Coynes worshipped the company and thought themselves members of the Firestone family.