An intimate, powerful memoir of growing up in the Pacific Northwest when it still had the characteristics of a frontier society in a sometime war zone. From birth on, Darrell Reeck had the support of two dedicated but conflicted parents, transplants from their beloved Spokane to the multi-cultural, economically booming Puget Sound region. Darrell's adventures take us from 1939 wartime in a working-class neighborhood in Tacoma, to 1960 in Seattle and its preparations for the Seattle World's Fair. He sobers and cheers us with stories of grandparents, peers, adult friends, and teachers. Told...