Jack's mother doesn't approve of his association with the governor. She is on her third husband since Jack's father left; this one much younger than she is. It's 1933, and he is remembering his idyllic childhood spent with his friends Adam and Anne playing on the beach and visiting each other in the big houses in the Landing. Judge Irwin had taken over as his father after his own left. His mother had wanted him to go to Harvard or Princeton, but he felt that he needed to put himself through school, and he chose the state university instead.
Judge Irwin had been in the army and had risen to the rank of colonel. He and Jack had made working models of ancient weapons like catapults while he was growing up. Jack was rejected.....
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