If you are the sort of person who is wistful about:TrolleysBalloons (the kind you go up in)The New York ElIce-cream parlorsPre-digit dialing (even better, pre-dial phones)The Marmon roadster…This collection of light fantastic stories will fill you with nostalgia for the older, gentler ways; and, happily, it will assure you that some of those ways are still around.Consider, for example, the story about a brand-new house in a fashionable suburb built from eighty-year-old plans for a Victorian mansion—Or the one about Galesburg, Illinois, a town with a past it has never surrendered.Then meet the unusual young woman who fills her hope chest with power tools… and the coin collector who finds a Woodrow Wilson dime that buys his way into a world just a little bit different from this one (including a different wife)… and the ten-year-old boy (his friends are convinced he's presidential timber) who hypnotizes a dangerous tiger…Will you like these stories? Make this simple test—open the book right now, read the first page of any story, and just see if you're not hooked!ABOUT THE AUTHOR