A masterful memoir by one of New Brunswick's finest writers. Nostalgic, yes, but not without lessons learned and choices made. "We could not have lived for history," he concludes. Perhaps you have to be from rural New Brunswick to fully understand his past, his father's and his grandfather's. The world outside was moving forward and horse and wagon was still the only way to get from place to place. His mother's saying that"the good old days" weren't worth two cents has a lifetime of hardscrabble existence to back them up. Still, there were some good times and moments of humour to be had. In short, we have a lovingly wrought time capsule of a time long ago and far away on the Miramichi.