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CurrentAdventures in Life, Love, and Loss that Span GenerationsAvailable at Sharlot Hall Museum, the Prescott Western Heritage Center on Whiskey Row, Peregrine Book Co. on Cortez St. in Prescott, and through Barnes and Noble.As Arizona enters the 1950s, reverend’s daughter, Gerry Turner, loves Chuck Baltzer, but they can’t afford a wedding ring, let alone a decent place to live in Phoenix. Despite dreams to make an old cabin with an outhouse their refuge, its remote beauty may be deadly. WWII Army barracks and a sleeping porch that rains scorpions aren’t the family adventure she has in mind either.When James Barnett MacLean is killed by a train, his six-year-old son, Mike, doesn’t have enough memories to last a lifetime. He implores family to tell stories from the past and help him remember his dad. Uncle Robert tells about bike tires wobbling from cars whizzing by on Route 66. Mike’s mom, Georgia, talks about fearing for her life and the life of her baby with her husband deployed. Mike’s grandparents, Harvey Girl, Ida Barnett, and mule train guide, Harry Dale, survive working at the Grand Canyon in the 1920s. But a failing economy and an added surprise threaten their resolve.