Most of the furniture was familiar to him from boyhood visits to his grandparents, inherited by his aunt as the last of her generation.

Old Benijah Corey had been his Uncle Christopher's hired man, and was aged even in those far-off times of his boyhood visits.

On a more introspective side, the ballad "Museums" recalls his enchanted boyhood visits to art museums with a father who taught him how to look at paintings but was otherwise remote.

David McIlveen claims "close ties with Israel" following boyhood visits with his father, and is due to visit the region with leading Unionists in 2013.

His photographs, taken in all boroughs, range from features of sunsets along the Brooklyn docks, where he remembers boyhood visits to his father, a longshoreman, to abandoned movie theaters he visited as a teen-ager.

His philosophy took root with that boyhood visit to Edison's studio.

The repeated intersection of these two lives supplies the basic plot, beginning with a boyhood visit to Roger's Long Island home and winding up with a grim 45th birthday party at Alistair's Manhattan apartment.

His career blossomed during boyhood visits to the Museum of Natural History in Manhattan, where he spent hours fantasizing about living in the African dioramas.

Instead, with memories of boyhood visits to his uncle, William Arthur Smith, 'a great worker with his hands', who introduced the lad to lathes and elementary mechanics, Benson began to consider a career in handicrafts.

That day, it seemed unsurprising that that vision came from an artist formed by boyhood visits to Hiroshima.