Julie Fritz's memoir is both universal - much of her story will resonate with all Americans of a certain age - but very specific to a place not exactly like any other. Bearden, on the west side of Knoxville, was in the 1950s neither city nor country, and certainly not suburbia as commonly understood today, but a rare hybrid of a place people may not be likely to picture, a place that had both cattle farms and city buses, silos and soda fountains,...

A history of the Rainbow Trail Lutheran Camp from its beginning in 1957 until 2007, when it will celebrate its 50th anniversary.