The White Porch: Summer of the Son

The White Porch: Liverpool, England to Ontario, Canada – 1944 until 1963

The White Porch is set in Canada and takes place in the band shell porch of an Ontario yellow bricked cottage. The story unfolds through a medley of phantasmagoric figures who will appear and reappear has the story of a man’s childhood days parade through his memory of the times he spent in Walton, Liverpool, England during the years of 1944 until 1963. The tale is told through his deceased mother but played out with her grandchildren as they discover their father’s childhood days through poetic stories that is tinkered and swathed with humor, nostalgia, sentiment, hurt, love, joy, and his emotional steps for his search of self discovery. He has become the passive but attentive observer of himself as he watches the medley of characters casting their timeless phantoms onto the white porch.

This will be the first of four episodes of the tetralogy that will follow him from his birth in Liverpool until his life in Canada. This first episode will cover his childhood and teen years from 1944 until 1963 and it is called: The White Porch: Summer of the Son. The story will first meander through an Ontario garden that will lead up to the yellow cottage house and to the white porch were the medley of memories will unfold from the present to the past as told through the eyes of his deceased mother who is now the storyteller to her three grand children.

Before you start this sojourn along the pathways of childhood and adolescent in Liverpool I would like to say that there will be approximately 355 pages albeit the lines are very short as it written in a poetic style, while giving you historical insights as well as entertaining you with reflective thoughts and providing you with informative facts about those times in a less “ stuffy “ way. I will attempt to place 10 pages on the site every week (even though I have completed episode one of this four part story). This first episode will cover the times from 1944 until 1963 (childhood and teen years). Don’t forget you will not get into the Liverpool aspect of the story until around page 23 as the other pages set the stage in Ontario, Canada and the White Porch is the time capsule for all that takes place.

So sit back, enjoy and reflect upon this journey as you make your own twists and turns in all the directions that life has to offer you in your own journey of self-discovery.