Back There Where the Past Was: A Small-Town Boyhood BOTY_2025 Opal has almost done it

Opal has almost done it all—fought monsters

awaiting his return

and a third section that presents in-depth explanations of each mythological term

New York Times bestselling author of Nimona

Back There Where the Past Was: A Small-Town Boyhood BOTY_2025 Opal has almost done itFor Charles Champlin, formerly a writer correspondent for Time and Life magazines and since 1965 an editor and columnist for the Los Angeles Times, his "other time" was the nineteen thirties. His "other place," where he was born and spent his boyhood and early adolescence, was the lovely Finger Lakes village of Hammondsport in western New York State. Its population was, and is, 1,200, and it was a fine place to grow up: Keuka Lake to swim in, band