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Memories are wandering bits of fancies as generations come and go, and just a few of such memories are herewith placed in writing. Just a few memories that have not been consigned to the ravages of hurried lives; and with the hope that one daughter; Mary Luella; four sons; James Edwin, Allen Leo, Father Alphonsus Lester, Lawrence Edmund will get a real chuckle with, no doubt, a heart-throb or two thrown in through those hit-and-run messages subscribed....

At the turn of the twentieth century, reclusive orchardist William Talmadge tends to his apples and apricots. One day, two teenaged girls steal his fruit and later return to see the man who gave them no chase. Feral, scared, and pregnant, they take up on Talmadge's land and indulge in his reservoir of compassion. But just as the girls begin to trust him, men arrive in the orchard with guns...

Traces the social and economic growth of the Pacific Northwest from the time of the aboriginal cultures.