Arthur Hale was born in Erie, Pennsylvania, in 1948. He served in Vietnam, came home, and ran Hale & Son Auto on Mercer Street for thirty-one years. He recorded these stories at the urging of his daughter, the first time he has written any of them down.

This account is published in three forms below. Read it as a book, watch it as a film, or explore the underlying archive — chapter index, timeline, and the people in it.