A family is forever changed in the summer of 1956

The edge of the orchard, where the last row of trees stood on the old lake bluff, delimited the edge of the real world. The orchard's orderly realm clashed and stood in mortal conflict with the Michigan woods spread below. One would win in the end. The boy understood the battle: the orchard is man's domain; the forest is owned by no one, a wilderness. He called it "below the hill," below civilization, below the safe, the known, the comfortable. The path from the crest of the bluff to the woods below, carved a hallway from one life to another, from one place that held his family to another that held him. It was a place to learn, to poke and prod, to watch and wonder, and to see miracles.

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