Download or read book Don't Throw Away Your Stick Till You Cross the River written by Vincent Beach and published by Five Star Publications (AZ). This book was released on 2007 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vincent Beach seems an ordinary man from ordinary beginnings. Look deeper, however, and you'll discover a special human being. Vincent left his native Jamaica in 1944 and enlisted in the Royal Air Force. Yearning to be a jazz musician, he bought an old clarinet and practiced. Through his perseverance, he found his way to America and a career for 22 years as a bandsman in the U.S. Air Force. Becoming an educator, he served the children on the Navajo Reservation in Arizona, and later enjoyed teaching in community college. Share the joys and woes of an ordinary man in his storied autobiography.