Bob Hursey grew-up in the depression years of the 1930's, living, with parents and three brothers and a sister, in a small cottage on a hillside overlooking Lake Park, a small park and resort outside of Coshocton, Ohio. Coshocton is on the confluence of two rivers and was called, by the Native Americans who lived there, Goschachquenk.

Though virtually all Lake Park residents of the time were poor as church-mice, the children of the park families knew nothing of this and just went about the serious business of being kids as if their total lack of material possessions meant nothing at all, as it didn't. They had their imagination and that was enough, as the first chapter of Bob's memoirs, "The Lake Park Gang," relates.

Subsequent chapters of Bob's memoirs of a long and interesting life cover his wanderings from Ohio to Florida to South Carolina during his High Schools years; his time in the Marine Corps during World War II, when he served in the South Pacific island-hopping campaigns and in mainland China after the armistice; his years at the Ohio State University and his long career in sales; and his long-time work with the Boy Scouts, where he served as a Scoutmaster for many years.

These memoirs are indeed the story of Bob's journey from Goschachquenk, which has taken a lifetime.