Collects stories and poems from 14 local writers profiling some of Clay County's most memorable characters. Organized in roughly chronological order, these stories span the early 1800s to the present.

Dispatches from a water dog: stories from the creek ; Remember me ; Women of the creek / Diane E. Shepard -- Brothers procession ; Private Robert C. Burns / Major Bryan J. Pitchford -- Women forming Clay / Joan T. Warren -- Shaping Clay: The story of Augusta Fells Savage / Paula R. Hilton ; The Old Homestead / Augusta Fells Savage -- Looking for Bokar at Orange Park's Monkey Farm / Tim Gilmore -- Ice and a Coca-Cola / Marshall Lenne -- Dreams and legacies: Penney Farms and the Penney Retirement Community / Nancy E. Moore -- How Hollywood found its way to Clay / Inez Holger -- Radio Country Club: The big WAPE / Michael Ray FitzGerald -- The Bardin Booger unmasked / Lena Crain -- A tale of friendship: Blondie and the Bardin Booger / Lillian Kiernan Brown -- Frank Towers: A consequential stranger / Beth Eifert -- A life on Hill Top: Restoring a community of hope / Maureen A. Jung -- Myself / Edward Guest -- Clay today / Lynn Skapyak Harlin.