Goosetown: Reconstructing an Akron Neighborhood

Can the past be discovered? Are memories only someone else's recollections? Can we draw out the shadows deep within the crevices of the brain? Goosetown, once a physical location in Akron, Ohio, and a place in Joyce Dyer's childhood world, still lingers on the edge of the author's perception. Dyer lived her first five years, the most significant five some would say, in Goosetown, and had dismissed them as irrelevant because she couldn't recover the images. Years later, accompanied by her uncl…