Lost Moon Summer

Gone are the dog days of summer when screen doors all over America would fly open at dawn’s first light and not slam shut until the moon was on the rise. Carefree vacation days when kids, like Sammy Walters, fresh out of school, were putting in twelve-to-fifteen-hour days, hard at work in a frenzied pursuit of tomfoolery.

Looking back, what grown-up doesn’t cherish those golden mischief filled moments of joy and would do anything to relive them? Some say youth is wasted on the young. But who better equipped to run the gauntlet, banishing melancholy. With the energy to run all day, impish enthusiasm to rise to any challenge and the imagination to conquer any obstacle, Sammy and his posse proved the perfect foil to tackle their straight-laced community rules and regulations.

Childhood memories burning bright, the adult Walters journeys back to his hometown, scene of a misspent boyhood. Equal parts idyllic and tumultuous; this period of Sammy’s life was never far from his thoughts in later years. Revisiting places of elusive hopes and dreams where he spent hours dodging neighborhood bullies, trolling deliverymen, indulging in endless mischief and teaching his rowdy posse the art of making flame-throwing match guns, Walters rekindles recollections of simpler times and the magic summer he shared with his extended family and a handful of youthful delinquents.