Sketch #15: Roses

Summer People, Some Are Not

In 1962, my father Jean finally found a buyer for the Walk-Over Shoe company and made plans to move our family from Brockton down to Cape Cod year-round. He celebrated by buying himself a new Austin Healey 3000 and decided it would be great fun to take the wife and kids on a six-week trip to Europe in the fall. Friends told him that my little brother Da…