An Albany childhood -- Lexington ways -- Aw-ben-ny -- Politics in my blood -- The facts of life -- Fear and the fifties -- Are the Russians coming? -- The real terror -- Uncle Frank's shelter -- Growing up: before the deluge -- Albany High -- Meet the Gottheimers -- Overcoming the past -- Two, four, six, eight, we don't want to integrate -- Washington, the first time around, 1963 -- Vertical engineer -- The March on Washington, August 1963 -- Uncle Clarence -- The Man from Plains -- Afterword from the editor