A glimpse of things to come -- a glance at the past. Here is Ray Bradbury's sometimes eerie, sometimes poetic fantasy about the people and familiar passions set against the icredible beauties of a new world
The summer of ’28 was a vintage season for a growing boy. A summer of green apple trees, mowed lawns, and new sneakers. Of half-burnt firecrackers, of gathering dandelions, of Grandma’s belly-busting dinner. It was a summer of sorrows and marvels and gold-fuzzed bees. A magical, timeless summer in the life of a twelve-year-old boy named Douglas Spaulding—remembered forever by the incompar…