A collection of short stories from George V. Packard. Seventeen short stories written over a fifty year span. Markers in time, like a slideshow of the author's life. We see him transform from an innocent young man in rural Maine ("A Pilgrim Far in Sundry Lands"), to a disillusioned teacher at an exclusive American prep school ("Shoemaker's Children"), to a witty humorist on a little island off the coast of Ireland ("A Rural Tale").