The Rhody Reader -Vol.1: The Early Days

By Kevin Delaney

What if you could go back to the neighborhood where childhood seemed to last forever?
Before smartphones, streaming, video games, and parents knowing where you were every minute, there was another kind of childhood.

There were banana-seat bicycles and baseball cards. Corner stores and penny candy. Backyard forts built with questionable engineering. Catholic school nuns who could detect trouble from three classrooms away. Summer nights that seemed endless, neighborhood adventures that required no reservations, and the sacred instruction every kid understood:
"Be home when the streetlights come on."
Rhody Reader - Volume 1: When the World Was Our Neighborhood is a warm, funny, and nostalgic journey through growing up in Rhode Island during the 1960s and '70s.
Through the adventures of Danny Callahan, we return to a fictional Rhode Island neighborhood called Bayfront-a place inspired by the streets, schools, churches, parks, families, and wonderfully imperfect characters of a New England childhood.

Danny's world is filled with bicycles, backyard schemes, Catholic school adventures, summer houses, neighborhood characters, Roger Williams Park, family vacations, first discoveries, spectacularly bad ideas, and the small moments that somehow became the ones we remember for the rest of our lives.
Some stories will make you laugh.

Some may remind you of someone you haven't thought about in fifty years.
And some may leave you wondering how an entire generation survived childhood without helmets, bottled water, GPS tracking, or adult supervision every twelve minutes.
But beneath the humor is something deeper-a remembrance of family, friendship, community, innocence, and a time when the world seemed enormous because our neighborhood was still enough.
You don't have to be from Rhode Island to recognize this place.

You just have to remember being a kid.
Come back to Bayfront.
Your bicycle is still waiting.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0HLY1TP83
• ISBN13: 9798178901953
• Release Date: October 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 108 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.5" x 8.5"