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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... seemed to me . The glitter and the ro- mance have vanished . Or were they ever here ? Do not we humans spread a nostalgic sheen over the site of our ado- lescence and our first love and make it more dazzling in our memories than it ever ...
... seemed to have the same lithe athletic shape , primed for a tennis match . The pale light or perhaps deft makeup obscured the lines that time must have etched on her round , faintly freck- led face . I saw in the dim glow of the ...
... seemed to tear at me and twist me apart . " You have grown up OK , Lee , " she rested her chin in her hand as if considering me . " Not bad for a fusty old political scientist . ' It was a humid , windless night for so early in the ...
... seemed to be caught in a swamp of molasses . For a moment there was no sound , only a total and hollow silence . Then with a dull blast , the car blew up and a dirty orange and black flame consumed it . I kept on running . Phil was ...
... seemed to stop completely . It might have been minutes or maybe a quarter hour or maybe eternity before the first police car , lights spinning madly rushed down the road . Then , perhaps quickly , perhaps not , a fire truck and an ...
Contents
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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 |