Last Summer at the Ranch and the River - Dumphy, Adam
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Herding caterpillars; raiding a neighbor's tall peach tree by means of stilts; constructing a fake "Loch Ness Monster" with canvas and a derelict canoe; machinations in a Pawn Shop to obtain the fur coat of a 'genuine' Eskimo Princess: or even adding paddling (with a real paddle) as the initiation fee for the prestigious San Francisco based Paddle and Canoe Club are hardly crimes. To the participant they rate more properly as just boyish exuberance. In such affairs as these Johnny was the brain, Chuck the muscle and the author as youngest and smallest, was the unfortunate shuttle cock sent…mehr

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Herding caterpillars; raiding a neighbor's tall peach tree by means of stilts; constructing a fake "Loch Ness Monster" with canvas and a derelict canoe; machinations in a Pawn Shop to obtain the fur coat of a 'genuine' Eskimo Princess: or even adding paddling (with a real paddle) as the initiation fee for the prestigious San Francisco based Paddle and Canoe Club are hardly crimes. To the participant they rate more properly as just boyish exuberance. In such affairs as these Johnny was the brain, Chuck the muscle and the author as youngest and smallest, was the unfortunate shuttle cock sent aloft to the winds of chance in walking, swimming or producing any chicanery necessary, to complete the plan. And as for an author age eighty, like Adam, memories can expand or recoil like a worn out accordion or a "Slinky" going down stairs, it is no problem for him to combine the actual happenings of eight summers spent in a cabin in the tourist town of Monte Rio on the Russian River in Northern California into one summer's adventure. Add the first burgeoning forth of a very shy, very tentative romance and you have this story. Locale, circumstances and incidents are true. It has been colored in part for reader interest.
Autorenporträt
To Adam Dumphy memories are priceless and so are memoirs.

Priceless not only for an individual but also for the many for they make up the warp on which history is written.

Not the revisionist history as by definition that means an author who was not there at the time and cannot understand the nuances of the language or the times, but the real history

Priceless also for the individual.

For example his beloved grandfather was still robust less than hundred years ago but he knows little about him.

What was like in his boyhood? What happened to him in the fire? How could one stand homesteading in the winter in ? Did he prefer Teddy or Franklin D?

And not just in the big things. Did he play poker or pinochle? Was whiskey to him a boon or curse? Did he like his roast rare or well and with or without mustard? He would love to know.

And as old people do when approaching their final exam, Adam wonders what did his grandfather think of the complaints or Job or the answers in Habakkuk.

He can never know.

So here are some of Adam's memories written particularly to show the peace, calm and decency of one area of the in the late thirties.