The author shares photos from her family album to illustrate memories of her childhood in British Columbia and Newfoundland in the mid-twentieth century. When she isn't dragging the family skeletons out of the closet to make them dance, she is creatinga vivid and colourful social history of a world that has now all but disappeared, Her story touches on sibling rivalry, politics, religion, and sex, with a little humour and a few family recipes thrown in for fun.