The essays an short stories in this book recount the author's life growing up in Worthington, Minnesota in the 40's and 50's. Discriptive and often humorus, readers follow the author as he lives through World War II and its aftermath as the world around him evolves from the Great Depression. Glimpses of life that quickly vanished after the war are interesting as well as intriguing. The short stories are fiction set in Worthington in the 1950's and are centered around community events.