The Golden Evenings of Summer Author:Will Stanton When I was a boy, it seemed that winter used to go on forever and summer was gone in a flash... But the funny thing is, whenever I think back, when I remember some episode of my boyhood, it's always summer -- I'm about twelve years old, my brother Rupert is ten, and my sister Leonora is sixteen. As often as not, it's a summer evening... more » that I recall, with the family all sitting out on the front porch, swinging or rocking or maybe just sitting... This was in the days of the Depression, when there was very little money for going anywhere or doing anything, but the swing didn't use any gas and the fireflies were free.« less