Jack Campisi is a former associate professor of anthropology at Wellesley College and is now an independent consultant. He is coeditor of Extending the Rafters: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Iroquoian Studies and The Oneida Indian Experience: Two Perspectives. William A. Starna is a professor emeritus of anthropology at State University of New York College at Oneonta. He is coeditor of In Mohawk Country: Early Narratives about a Native People and Iroquois Land Claims.

• Introduction (Jack Campisi and William A. Starna)Upstaters in Suburbia and at HomeAt Yale and among the SenecasFrom Teaching to the BAEThe War and Postwar YearsThe National Research CouncilThe New York State Museum Research Professorship at AlbanyLife after UniversityNotesBibliography of the Publications of William N. Fenton

"Fenton's memoir is so readable that I nearly finished it in a single sitting. Those who knew Fenton appreciated his talent for telling a story, whether as a comment to a large audience in response to a scholarly paper or in a small gathering over drinks or dinner. Fenton has always written in the same style as these oral presentations and he holds the same rapt attention from the reader that he invariably received from those fortunate enough to have heard him reminisce."—Thomas Abler, author of Chainbreaker: The Revolutionary War Memoirs of Governor Blacksnake