
Chapter 1: Beginnings, Time & Place
A 5-month-old Stanley held high in the arms, close to the loving face of my first ayah, Marrimma. She was a family servant from the Telugu speaking region of south

Chapter 2: A Very Talented Friend
Among Khargpur friends one stood out, Lewin Brown – A very talented Anglo Indian artist, dancer, and an American movie fan. HE WAS MUCH OLDER, but that didn’t matter.

Chapter 3: Woodstock, A World Apart
Woodstock School in India. Missionaries in India had to decide: Send their kids away to private Christian boarding school or home to America to be educated? Dad and Mother were faced

Chapter 4: Indian Stag Beetles and More
The monsoon beetles of Landour were the product of Nature at her most imaginative. There were the hyperactive bamboo beetles, with long antennae, ready to do battle with anything within

Chapter 5: Third Culture Kids didn’t fit in India or at home in America
Third Culture Kids didn’t feel that they fit in India or at home in America. THE ROOTLESSNESS OF THE MISSIONARY FAMILY was felt most by its children when the time

Chapter 6: World War Two Was Ramping Up
A five man rickshaw on the Mall road in front of a favorite Landour rendevous. The top could be raised for the passengers´ privacy or protection from rain. World War