Tenderly Tenafly
The type of material used to camoflauge the Abbey brothers' under-porch fire-building, which led to near disaster.
What is newspaper?
The length of the summer season at Deerfoot Lodge
What is eight weeks?
The gift given to young Peter and Roger which ended up confiscated by the police.
What is a rifle?
Once a favorite order at Charlie Brown's Steakhouse, this is also known as a "standing" rib roast.
What is Prime Rib?
What is cleaning exterior windows?
The number of children who piled into a single canoe by night and rowed back to camp in order to avoid a prowling, predatory feline.
What is seven (plus one counselor)?
The only class that young Peter looked forward to in school.
What is art class?
The vehicle by which young Peter and Roger were surprised when whizzing down the snowy King's College service road on their sleds.
What is a school bus?
This 1980's TV series about a field hospital in the Korean War was also what Grandpa did to potatoes on Sundays.
What is "MASH"?
What is an electric train?
Peter's mom worked five summers at Deerfoot, managing these departments, and then another five doing the same at Camp of the Woods.
What are the camp store and post office?
A subject which, studied for two years in high school, proved handy and well-learned on a trip in 1997.
What is French?
The mode of transportation which carried Grandpa, Uncle Roger, and Jane (Gigi) on the last leg of the journey to Deerfoot for their first summer, piloted by Clyde Elliott.
What is a sea plane?
Grandpa doesn't love it when people skip the second verse of this hymn, which begins "When through the woods and forest glades I wander..."
What is "How Great Thou Art"?
Grace Chapel, where the Millers and Abbeys attended, was of this denomination, which required women to wear hats and men to take turns preaching.
What is the Plymouth Bretheren?
The first name of the founder and director of Deerfoot, nicknamed "Dad" Kuntz. (Grandpa is named after him, sort of.)
What is Alfred?
The name for an attendant at a soda fountain, like at Gordon's Drug Store, where Peter worked after classes in High School.
What is a "soda jerk"?
The nickname of the red Volkswagon Squareback which was Peter (and MJ's) first car, and which they drove straight from NY to Miami just before their wedding trip to Panama.
What is Rosie?
Other than basketball, the sport Peter couldn't get enough of as a youngster in Briarcliff. After six or seven games, he had to play with his left hand, because he had blisters!
What is bowling?
Jane (Gigi) had this job at Bower's Phramacy in town while her boys were growing up in Tenafly.
What is cosmetician?
The town in NY where both Deerfoot Lodge and Camp of the Woods are located. (Also someone who develops a theory without evidence.)
What is Speculator, New York?
The injury that ended Peter's high school basketball career.
What is torn ankle ligaments from an ankle roll?
Peter learned to drive on this 1960 Pontiac car, named after a resort island off the coast of California. (Or possibly a tangy, red salad dressing?)
What is a Pontiac Catalina?
Once written in the front of his Bible by his mom, and later engraved on a brass plate on his desk at work, Grandpa let these words from Isaiah 30 guide his actions. " In quietness and confidence shall be your..."
What is "(In quietness and confidence shall be your) strength"?