Contents

PROLOGUE

1    The War Hits Home

2    Victory Garden

3    Wisteria Mansion

4    Polio!

5    Bobby

6    Epidemiologists

7    Bobby’s Toys

8    Outcasts!

9    Hickory Daily Record

10  Hospital Visit

11  Pete

12  The Hearse Comes Back

13  The Funeral

14  The Plan

15  The Escape

16  Tough as Hickory

17  Colored Girl

18  The Hospital

19  The Bottle Collection

20  Imogene’s People

21  The Muddy Wide River

22  Visiting Day

23  The Wheelchair

24  The “Miracle of Hickory”

25  Charlotte Memorial

26  The President

27  Victory!

EPILOGUE

AUTHOR’S NOTE