And Got Away Clean

“And Got Away Clean” is set in the year, 1956. The protagonist is an old man who meets a college student, and tells her the story of a series of adventures he had more than fifty years ago. Back then, he set out to do a walking-tour of the New England coastline from southern Massachusetts up to northern Maine. Along the way, he got a job picking blueberries, met a young woman and fell in love, discovered a treasure of sorts, and then was forced to deal with the repercussions of that discovery for many years to come.