Jack Sawyer (possible cameo)

… On September 15th, 1981, a boy named Jack Sawyer stood where the water and land come together, hands in the pockets of his jeans, looking out at the steady Atlantic. He was twelve years old and tall for his age.

Jack and the shared Arcadia/Alhambra setting suggest a Sawyer cameo. Sawyer would be eighteen or nineteen in 1988; this boy’s age is unstated. His mother’s reported car-crash death is unconfirmed in Sawyer’s biography. This remains a possible match.

To the right was the Alhambra Inn and Gardens, and that was where the boy’s thoughts relentlessly took him. On the day of their arrival Jack had momentarily thought he’d seen a rainbow over its dormered and gambreled roof. A sign of sorts, a promise of better things.

Jack and the shared Arcadia/Alhambra setting suggest a Sawyer cameo. Sawyer would be eighteen or nineteen in 1988; this boy’s age is unstated. His mother’s reported car-crash death is unconfirmed in Sawyer’s biography. This remains a possible match.

What’s your name?” “Jack. What’s yours?” “Gard.” “Happy Fourth of July, Gard.” “Happy Fourth, Jack. And watch out for the Tommyknockers.”

Jack and the shared Arcadia/Alhambra setting suggest a Sawyer cameo. Sawyer would be eighteen or nineteen in 1988; this boy’s age is unstated. His mother’s reported car-crash death is unconfirmed in Sawyer’s biography. This remains a possible match.

… Not long after dawn on the morning of July 4th, 1988, Gardener awoke—came to, anyway—near the end of the stone breakwater which extends out into the Atlantic not far from the Arcadia Funworld Amusement Park in Arcadia Beach, New Hampshire.

Jack and the shared Arcadia/Alhambra setting suggest a Sawyer cameo. Sawyer would be eighteen or nineteen in 1988; this boy’s age is unstated. His mother’s reported car-crash death is unconfirmed in Sawyer’s biography. This remains a possible match.