Chapter 9, "Everybody Swing!" Summary

Brent tries a bed-and-breakfast and finds the social demands too great. There is too much need to explain himself, and there are too many lies he has to tell. He gets a ride north with a guest. He sees a billboard for a campground on Casco Bay and climbs out at the village of Weeksboro, Maine. The past is palpable here, on a plaque that names Weeksboro's fallen Union soldiers on a gravestone dated 1798. People died young then, Brent notices, like Lea. The signs for the campground are laid out on the way. The first offers free mosquitoes, and by the fourth, there's a list of office hours from "Whenever We Feel Like It Till We Don't." Brent veers off down a path by the water to see where it goes, and he finds a good campsite...