This volume comprises journals maintained by Owen Francis Kelly (1924-1931) and his son James John Kelly (1962-1968), detailing life in Glendale, Missouri, in the 1920s, edited and annotated by their descendant James Owen Kelly. Owen offers a wealth of detail on the hardships, and occasional pleasures, of the semirural life of a late-middle-aged man and his wife and six children. Forty years later, James reflects on Owen's chronicle, bringing the family's story up to date and describing his life, culminating in a confrontation with his own mortality.