As an adult, Bruce Stoneman discovers a photo album of his childhood. There are pictures dating back from the 1940s before he was born, up to 1964 when he graduated from high school. We meet his older brother who had a bout of Polio and the ingenuity of his younger brother. There is Bruce stepping up to President John F. Kennedy’s challenge to walk 50 miles in one day.
Told in a series of vignettes as Bruce goes from one set of photos to the next.
“The Album is like a favorite old song, that when heard transports the reader back to the age of innocence, to a simpler time and place, and evokes cherished memories and experiences of youth and of growing up in an America we all still wish we had. The story is a sometimes happy, sometimes melancholy, but always a nostalgic trip down memory lane for anyone growing up in the 50s and 60s. Through Stoneman’s “pictures” the reader will find a part of himself that may long ago have been stored away in his very own ‘Album’.”
Alan Barkemeyer, Retired Teacher
Steven Wilcox 