Summer at the LakeFor childhood friends Leo Kelly, Jane Devlin, and newly ordained "Packy" Keenan, the summers they spent at the lake together were times of pure magic. And no summer was more enchanting than the summer of 1948 - until a tragic car wreck killed two of their friends. |
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... brats and we're going to get you real good . " When I tried to figure out much later why they abused me the next couple of days , I concluded that I was the per- fect target a kid from the Old Houses but a 22 Andrew M. Greeley.
... later . " " You'd think we'd done something wrong , " I said to her . " They're as confused as we are , poor men . ' The surrealistic nightmare continued , as clear in my mind as I write these words as it was at the time . It took me a ...
... later I still knew it . Perhaps I should say three families : the Keenans were only on the margins of the drama . Maggie Ward Keenan was there the last two summers ; on the day of the tragedy she was in Oak Park Hospital admiring her ...
... later , the day before the Memorial Mass . I begged the Prefect of Disci- pline to let me attend the Mass . He refused flatly . " We don't even permit anyone to leave the seminary for the funeral of a grandparent or an aunt or uncle ...
... later . " It's the down side of being an Irish matri- arch . " Maggie kept me informed by mail of Jane's deterioration until I was summoned to the Rector's office . " Who is this Maggie person who is writing to you ? " he demanded ...
Contents
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31 | |
St Johns Night | 61 |
The Thirties | 95 |
The 1940s | 111 |
Fourth of July | 145 |
1968 | 291 |
1978 | 299 |
1947 | 307 |
1978 | 321 |
1977 | 327 |
1978 | 333 |
Marys Day in Harvest Time | 337 |
1948 | 339 |
1978 | 147 |
1967 | 197 |
1978 | 209 |
1946 | 217 |
1978 | 243 |
Labor Day | 409 |
The Feast of St Michael Gabriel Raphael and all the other Angels | 461 |
Authors Note | 467 |