Amazon.com description: Product Description: This is a saga of a boy growing up in the environment of a rural Midwestern lake during the late 1920s and early 1930s. It’s a story of a juvenile lifestyle almost gone from our urbanized society, when youthful pleasures and challenges were so different from today. This is a story of a specific boy, and his family and friends, in a particular time and place, yet a story of many boys, and their families and friends, in many times and places. In writing this book, the author has avoided the “chronicle” style, which is typical of many memoirs. Instead, he has made the story come alive by using action, dialogue, humor, and immediacy, so that when the reader lays the volume aside at the end, he or she may well muse, “Yes, it seems I’ve been there before.”