Kenny Auster

He laughed, but a little doubtfully, as if afraid he was committing an impropriety. "I can eat a lot of carrot-cake," I said, "and if folks overdo it, well, hasn't Kenny Auster still got that big Irish wolfhound?" "Yuh, that thing'd eat cake til he busted!"

Distinctive full name and coherent Maine 1966 student to 1998 local carpenter trajectory; no assigned college age contradicts the earlier family history. Labeled likely, not proven.

Kenny Auster, not much more than five feet tall and neatly made, was the opposite of gormy, that peculiar Maine adjective that means clumsy, awkward, and clay-footed. I suddenly realized that I missed these people--Bill and Brenda and Buddy Jellison and Kenny Auster and all the others who lived year-round at the lake.

Distinctive full name and coherent Maine 1966 student to 1998 local carpenter trajectory; no assigned college age contradicts the earlier family history. Labeled likely, not proven.

The most insidious thing about Ronnie was that weak minds found him worth imitating. I left my seat at the original table, where I had spent the balance of the day, and my place was immediately taken by a young man named Kenny Auster.

Distinctive full name and coherent Maine 1966 student to 1998 local carpenter trajectory; no assigned college age contradicts the earlier family history. Labeled likely, not proven.

Kenny Auster, who usually sat in the corner during the marathon games and picked his nose when he couldn’t decide what card to play next, simply bugged out one day. He left a queen of spades with the words “I quit” written across it on his pillow.

Distinctive full name and coherent Maine 1966 student to 1998 local carpenter trajectory; no assigned college age contradicts the earlier family history. Labeled likely, not proven.