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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... mother , reek- ing of gin , in curlers , hairnet , and a white satin robe , a tiny wreck of what once had been a beautiful and vivacious woman . " Jane Marie Devlin , what are you doing out here with all this trash ! Don't you care what ...
... mother's . Their mother wore the same mask of guilt and the same plea for forgiveness . I was still an emotional mess from my POW experience and was incapable of forgiveness . For which God forgive me now . I watched the sun go up , put ...
... mother was much worse than her father . She ruled the roost with fear and no one in the family dared to resist her drunken tantrums . " Good old Jane has assumed responsibility for everyone else since she was a child - including you and ...
... mother was a real prize . Given a choice between a sneaky , conniving , dishonest way of attaining her goals and a ... mothers were real prizes all right . Both wanted re- spectability for their family , the battle cry of Irish women for ...
... mother . She was , as far as I could tell , a lot of fun - energetic , witty , charming . I thought she was tiny in comparison to my tall parents but she filled the house with her laughter and vitality . And what I now realize was ...
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 |