TABLE OF CONTENTS
PREFACE: .
Chapter 1:
.My
Mother, Hattie Frances Seaver: Early life
Chapter 2:..My
Father, Donald Macomber: Early life
.Chapter
3: .Harriet
Frances Seaver: Bryn Mawr College; Ethel Hale Freeman.Chapter
4: .My
Father, Ethel Jaynes, Marriage, War and Tragedy .Chapter
5:.
My Father and his Sisters
Chapter 6:.,.A
New Marriage: Dr. Donald and Mrs. Macomber and three ... no,
four.. no, five .. no, six children in West
Newton,
Massachusetts
Chapter 7: .
Duxbury: A Summer Idyll (Among Other Things)
Chapter 8: ..West
Newton School Years
Chapter 9: .
Lincoln and a
Cast of Thousands (Including Cows, Horses, Chickens, Turkeys,
Dogs, Cats ... and Fleas!)
Chapter 10: .Our
Camping Trip out West
Chapter 11:...Squantum:
Adolescence on an Isolated Peninsula
Chapter 12:...Bryn
Mawr College: My Mother, my Sister and Me
Chapter 13: Children's Hospital in
Boston:
from Terrified
Amateur to Self-.Confident
Graduate Nurse
Chapter 14:..Love,
Courtship and Betrothal
Chapter 15:
.Prince's Point,
Marriage and Another War
Chapter 16: .Pregnancy,
Birth and Life on the Farm
Chapter 17: The Ending of the Dream: Last Years on the
Farm
Chapter 18: .Transition:
Trying to Divide our Time between Farming andTeaching
Chapter 19: ..Bowdoin
College - Page Street, Mill Streeet: Class and
Political
Radicalization -
Life Among the Gentry; Life among the Canucks
Chapter 20: ..West
Newton Yet Again: PhD Thesis at Harvard; Illness and Activism
Chapter 21:...First
Year in Denton, Texas; Texas State College for Women
Chapter 22: .Acquiring
Property, Finding Friends; Becoming Acclimated, Having
a..Baby
Chapter 23:
/.Learning
to Enjoy Being Texans:
Padre
Island
Chapter 24:
/..Changes;
New Members of the Family; Texas Woman's University
Chapter 25: ..Our
Last Years in Texas: The Prep School; Birth and Death in
the.Family
Chapter 26: .Starting
all Over Again: 34 North
Allen Street and
SUNYA
Chapter 27: .Things
Come to a Head
Chapter 28: .Our
Black November
Chapter 29: ..A
Year of Deaths
Chapter 30:
..Retrospective.Chapter
31:...Attempted
Remedies: The
(Relative) Calm Before the Storm
Chapter 32:
..On the Eve of
Major Changes; Viet Nam Protests; The Brothers
Chapter 33: ...
Weddings;
Sabbatical Year at Oxford University; Travel in Europe
Chapter 34: .Return
to Albany during the Seventies: Revolution; the
Vietnam.War;
MoreTherapies;
Oxford Road;
Beginning of The Free School
Chapter 35: .Voyages
to a Distant Shore.Chapter
36: .School,
Community and Separation; 196 Elm Street; Deaths of my Parents;
Another Wedding
Chapter 37:
The Family
Life Center and Midwifery; Rainbow Camp and Community; Retreat;
Three More Weddings and a Funeral
Chapter 38:
SKOLE; Dowsing
and a Pilgrimage to Europe; Active Birth; Montségur and
Past Lives; A Sufi Tour of the Holy Land
Chapter 39:
The Move
to 20 Elm Street and a
Demon Lover; Nipponzan Myohoji Buddhism and a Pilgrimage to India;
..72
Philip Street:Trying to Patch Up a Failed Marriage
Chapter 40: The Journal .of
Family Life; Jun-San's Peace Pagoda, Mohawks and the Onondaga
Nation; Pilgrimages to Japan, Ladakh, Sai Baba; Bill's Decline;
Doc; Bill's Death
Chapter 41:
...Alienation
in Many Places
Chapter 42: .Back
to Ashfield and Home in the Hills
Chapter 43: .A
New Career as Family Grandmother, Village Elder and
Webmaster
Chapter 44:
.Journey's
End Journal
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for a few reactions to these reminiscences - which, for some
odd reason, I had not anticipated, but have certainly been
grateful for!