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A graduate of the Massachusetts Nautical School and Northeastern University Law School who served with the U.S. Navy during World War II,? Alfred Mehegan forged a career and family life,? notwithstanding the disadvantages of strife and neglect in childhood, and lifelong struggles with depression and alcohol.?? The gracefully written, deeply reflective story is told against the background of Boston in the early and mid-20th century,? the American carnival, the U.S. Merchant Marine and U.S. Navy,? Boston Irish immigration and Catholic cultural life, the Great Depression, World War II, the Greatest Generation; and the age of the Postwar Baby Boom. ??? More than a simple chronicle, the story explores high hopes and bad luck, differences of values and dreams between parents and sons, and ponders why "one person can escape the barbed hooks of family pathology, while another cannot."









Golf, war, mischief and murder stream through this life and times tale of an Edwardian Canadian and his family living on an estate called Craigheath. Inside the gates of this great house, the Jennings are a fortunate and happy family whose lives centre mainly on a favoured son, a reluctant champion golfer, who not only survives the trenches of the Great War, a kidnapping and murder, but his wife’s practical jokes. Along the way, the story pays tribute to a country 150 years young with whiffs here and there of her individual and collective call to greatness in the early years of the 20th century.