The Thurber Connection presents observations and interesting events from various sources and covers the spectrum of Thurber life. Particularly interesting in The Thurber Connection is Victor Lucadello's narration - an Italian immigrant miner's son who documents his growing up experiences in Thurber. When Thurber shut down, people moved on to different parts of the United States. And today there are thousands of people scattered all over the states who have ancestral ties to Thurber. This book will certainly give them some idea of what their forbears went through when they first went to work in Thurber, Texas, USA in the early 1900s. The book tries to "Set the Record Straight" on some of the misperceptions and license some writers take when writing of Thurber. This is important to ensure that "How Thurber was" is more significant than trying to imagine what "Thurber should have been like."