Prologue -- Introduction -- The bungalow -- School days -- Cap'n George and Grandma Hanna -- A Model A for an ailing man -- A merry Christmas -- Saturdays are special -- Broken trikes, lost watches and missing cats -- My mother gets a little help -- The salesman and the Studebaker -- Five Islands ablaze -- Quarantined -- Sadie and Clayton -- Son of a salesman -- Daddy was a dreamer, and desperate -- Life is cheap -- Iva's clean sheets -- If a tree falls -- Bowling Alley Hill -- Girl's shoes -- Rice and raisins -- Chasing butterflies -- A square peg -- Father and son -- Monkey business -- The domino kid -- Death of a laborer -- The man of the family -- Wartime work -- BIW -- Time to go -- Home again, gone again -- My father in the mirror -- Salvation -- The bungalow, revisited -- Epilogue -- About the author