1940s & 1950s
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| 1945 |
Francis (known mostly to close friends by his middle name, Richard) Salinger is born in Pleasant Port, CT.
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| 1949 |
Eleanor Manchester is born in VT
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| 1959 |
Francis Salinger begins to date Sara Lewis and befriends her brother, Jeffrey.
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1960s
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| 1963 |
Francis begins college at Pleasant Port Community College. |
| 1965 |
Francis Salinger leaves Pleasant Port to attend UCONN. |
| 1967 |
Eleanor Manchester begins college at UCONN and she meets Francis Salinger who has recently graduated with his Bachelor's. He remains at the college for his Masters so that he can become a college professor. |
| 1969 |
Francis and Eleanor travel to Woodstock together. Francis realizes that he loves Eleanor and eventually wants her to be his wife. Knowing that he is ready to settle down and she is not, he intends to wait for her. |
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Eleanor Salinger becomes involved with women's activist groups on campus. |
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Francis Salinger graduates with his Masters. |
1970s
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| 1971 |
Eleanor Manchester graduates with her Bachelor's |
| July 4, 1975 |
Francis Salinger and Eleanor Manchester marry and settle down in Pleasant Port. |
| August 1975 |
Francis begins to build his family home on Salem Road with his father. |
| August 18, 1976 |
Carrie Anne Salinger is born. |
| April 12, 1978 |
Amy Janeen Salinger is born. |
1980s
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| 1986 |
An eight year old Amy watches on as her older sister Carrie has her first kiss with neighborhood boy, Cole Cleyburne. |
| 1989 |
Amy has her first kiss with Brendan Wright. |
1990s
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| 1991 |
Amy leaves Pleasant Port to attend boarding school in Boston, MA. |
| Spring 1993 |
Amy begins to date Christian Broderick, her first boyfriend. |
| September 1993 |
During her junior year of high school, Amy studies abroad in Italy. Having already studied Latin, she now uses some of the other Romance languages enough to speak them conversationally. |
| October 1994 |
Begins dating Seth Anderson, who she calls her high school sweetheart. Although she considers losing her virginity to him, he is also a virgin and the two can't get over the awkwardness enough to "do the deed". |
| June 1995 |
Amy graduates high school third in her class. |
| September 1995 |
Begins college at Harvard University |
| November 1995 |
Meets fellow Harvard student, Steven Villard, at a campus roundtable meeting. He identifies as a "moderate" Republican and Amy is the more socially conscious liberal democrat and thus they clash on issues. But they find that they are attracted to each other and start dating. |
| Early 1996 |
Amy loses her virginity to Steven Villard. |
| Spring 1996 |
Amy joins the lightweight crew team, the start of her eating "healthier" due to the greulling training. |
| Fall 1996 |
Amy joins the Speech and Debate team, although she is really interested in the individual "forensics" events as they are less adversarial and more performanced based. |
| Spring 1997 |
Amy competes in an individual prose interpretation competition. Since Harvard didn't send a full team, it was not scored and was actually more like an "exhibition" performance. It received some attention because her selection included exerpts from Cry, the Beloved Country, about Apartheid. |
| Summer 1997 |
Amy gets a letter from Brendan Wright and he "comes out" to her. She jokingly responds, "Oh my gosh, I'm totally responsible for your gayness....", something she often says to this day.... |
| Fall 1997 |
Amy begins her year abroad at Oxford studying English Language and Literature, specifically old and middle English. |
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One of Amy's roommates at Oxford is Irish and begins teaching her some Gaelic. |
| Spring 1998 |
Amy takes a trip to Manchester, and does extensive research for her family's geneology. |
| September 1998 |
Begins her senior year of college. She becomes involved with the Radcliffe Research Institute. |
| November 1998 |
Steven proposes to Amy at a public dinner with his family and friends. She has reservations, mainly because she feels they have grown apart in the time she has been away and also because she feels she is not ready, but she says yes anyway. |
| Early December 1998 |
Amy returns Steven's ring and tells him that she doesn't want to marry him afterall. They break up as a couple but still sleep together from time-to-time. |
| April 12, 1999 |
On her 21st birthday, Amy's father buys her first legal drink - A Whiskey and Water. Coupled with all the other drinks she has that night, she ends up quite sick. |
| June 1999 |
Amy graduates from Harvard with her Bachelor's. |
| September 1999 |
Begins graduate school and as part of her research, she publishes articles in several academic journals regarding language study and composition instruction. |
2000s
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| Fall 2000 |
Starts teaching basic composition classes at Bunker Hill Community College. She also meets and begins to date a fellow grad student, Jared Markenson. |
| Fall 2001 |
Publishes a collection of short stories and continues to teach at the community college. |
| Spring 2002 |
Considers law school but ultimately decides against it and applies for the Peace Corps instead. |
| Winter 2003 |
Sleeps with Steven Villard for the last time. He tries to convince her to accept his proposal to marry him again but she tells him that she's been accepted into the Peace Corps and will be leaving for two years. She doesn't expect he'll be extending the offer again when she comes back. |
| June 2003 |
Amy leaves for Peace Corps Training in South Africa. As part of her training, she learns the native language of the region she'll be working in, Afrikaans. |
| October 2003 |
Amy's Peace Corps service in South Africa officially begins. She is ent to work in the Northern Cape province, in a rural area outside of the capitol city of Kimberley. She stays with an Afrikaaner host family, The Roussows. |
| November 23, 2003 |
The 46664 Concert is held in Capetown, South Africa. Amy attends with her host family and other Peace Corps volunteers. |
| Summer 2004 |
Begins seeing an Afrikaaner man named Dukarai van Heerden. |
| March 19, 2005 |
Amy attends another 46664 Concert in George, South Africa. |
| March 30, 2005 |
Eliza Marie Salinger is born. |
| May 2005 |
Eliza's father proposes to Carrie on Mother's Day. The newly engaged couple plan to wed in early 2006 so that Amy can attend the wedding and be the Maid of Honor. |
| June 2005 |
With a group of volunteers, Amy attends the South African National AIDS Conference held in Durban. |
| October 2005 |
Amy completes her Peace Corps service and returns to Pleasant Port in time for Thanksgiving. She recieves word from Steven that he is working Washington, DC and that he's engaged. But he makes it clear that he is still "in love" with her. |
| November 8, 2005 |
Begins writing a column for the Pleasant Port Post. |
| December 2005 |
Meets Alexander Stone at the bookstore and after a goodnatured argument, about religion, he asks her out. |
| January 7, 2006 |
Carrie leaves Eliza's father at the altar after she finds out in a conversation the night before the ceremony that he has cheated on her. Being a dutiful maid of honor and caring sister, Amy agrees to do whatever she can to cheer Carrie up. Amy ended up unknowingly committing herself to participating in Carrie's retaliation against her would be groom - keying his car. |
| Late January 2006 |
Amy begins teaching composition classes at Pleasant Port Community College. Her father also teaches at the college and sometimes she'll sit in on his classes to observe. |
| June 2006 |
Having missed her 10 year high school reunion because of her Peace Corps service, Amy makes an impromptu visit to Boston. While touring the school, she discovers that her high school sweetheart, Seth Anderson, is teaching there. They reconnect and eventually they are able to move beyond the awkwardness of their youth to finally sleep together. |
| July 4, 2006 |
Francis and Eleanor retire to Florida, leaving the family home in Amy's care. |
| September 2006 |
Amy begins teaching her second semester at the community college, picking up other courses like Critical Theory and Contemporary Poetry. Having decided that she plans to stay in the area, she applies to the Yale doctoral program. |
| October 2006 |
Amy becomes the academic advisor to the women's basketball team. |
| December 2006 |
Amy and a few other single female adjuncts join Cole Cleyburne, Ethan Hauer and both their younger brothers (Logan Cleyburne and Evan Hauer) for a night of drinking on the town. According to her, "way too much alcohol had been consumed, causing way too much silliness and stupidity to be put on display." |
2007
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| January |
Amy begins teaching her third semester at the community college. She's also accepted into the Yale doctoral program. |
| September |
Amy begins teaching her fourth semester at the community college. She begins her doctoral studies part time at Yale, taking a course about teaching English. |
| October 31 |
Amy has lunch with Alexander Stone and the two make plans to work on teaching a Bible as Literature course together for the college. For Halloween, Amy dresses as She-Ra. |
| November |
Amy and her parents attend the funeral of Naomi Lewis. |
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Amy and Alex's course proposal is accepted. |
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Amy quits her job at the Pleasant Port Post to instruct full time and concentrate on her doctorate. |
| Early December |
Amy spends more time with Alex attempting to help him keep from thinking about his failed relationship with Jackie. A side effect is that she starts to have more than "friendly" feelings for Alex |
| December 24 |
Amy meets up with childhood friend Cole Cleyburne while shopping and they reminisce about some memories. Amy teases him about Carrie and eventually invites him to Christmas Dinner. |
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Amy attends Midnight Mass with Alex. When he drives her home and mentions that he's thinking of moving back to Ireland, Amy unexpectedly kisses him. She invites him inside but he turns her down saying that he wants to be sure about what he is feeling. |
| December 25 |
Amy recieves a voicemail from Alex explaining that Jackie has returned to town. In an effort to keep from thinking about it, she takes Eliza and Lady to Hillside Park. There, they meet up with Miko Ronin and make snow angels. |
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Amy's extended family is over for dinner and her uncle offers her the use of his car for her upcoming busy semester of teaching and learning. Amy seeks out advice from her sister and Cole about the Alex situation. |
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When Alex comes to see her and tells her he does not want to be with Jackie, Amy is optimistic about them being together. When Alex pleads with her not to talk about their feelings, she agrees. Then, in her attempts to throw caution to the wind, she hardly objects to sex in the backseat of Alex's car, despite it being parked in her driveway and a houseful of family not too far away. |
| December 26 |
In the morning, Amy goes running to keep from having to face an inquisition about her trist with Alex the night before. She meets up with friend Michel Decker and they talk about books. Later in the evening, she goes over to Grace Gibson's house where they have wine. Amy gets a "booty call" from Alex and goes over to his house somewhat tipsy. |
| December 27 |
Amy wakes up at Alex's house to find out that they didn't have sex the previous night due to her intoxication. But the two manage to make up for it. |
| December 18 |
Amy takes Eliza to Cafe Atlantique for a real "tea party". in the afternoon/early evening, her uncle stops by to drop off his car for her to use for the new year and shortly after she heads over to Brendan Wright's for a play date. Late that evening, Cole stops by and reveals to Amy that he kissed Jackie....and then he also tells her that he and her sister Carrie were together that summer. At first, Amy is upset at the news as she worries about what it'll do to her 'thing' with Alex. But after a few glasses of 151 to help the news go down, she realizes she can't stay mad at Cole, especially when he seems so remourseful about it himself. |
| December 29 |
Amy and Eliza meet up in the park with Alex and Connor for a day of sledding. |
| December 30 |
Waking up feeling the onset of a cold (and seeing that Eliza is not much better), Amy stops by the pharmacy to pick up some medicine. Unfortunately, her hopse for a simple solution for their illness doesn't go as well as planned. Eliza gets worse and Amy takes her to the hospital. Carrie's flight is delayed. |
| December 31 |
After spending all night at the hospital with her neice and waiting for Carrie to arrive, the threesome arrive home for a bit before Amy drives them to the airport and sees them off to Cali. Amy then returns to the house and dozes on the couch after returning Alex's call. Alex urges her to come stay with him and Connor while she is sick, but ever the stubbornly independant woman, Amy refuses. Eventually, Alex and Connor come over anyway, bringing along the boy's video game, which Amy gets 'schooled' in how to play. Both Alex and the boy end up staying over. |
2008
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| January 1 |
Amy wakes up early feeling well enough to make Alex and Connor breakfast as a thank you for keeping her company. After seeing them off, she takes more medicine and then crawls back into to bed for another round of sleeping. After noon, she wakes and is visited by another friend, Sarah, who brings her chicken soup. They also use the time to catch up. |
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After Sarah leaves, Amy sets about showering and picking up the house from the night before. Then she goes up to her office to try and get some work done. In the middle, Cole stopps by to check on her. |
| January 2 |
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| January 6? |
While skiing in Colorado with Cole, Ethan cracks a few ribs on a tumble down one of the more advanced slopes. Amy takes on temporary coaching duties of the PPCC Women's basketball team. |
| January 14 |
Amy begins her semester at Yale. |
| February 21 |
Basketball teams final game of the season which makes it official that they won't move on to districts or even the national tourney. |
| March 6 |
Yale Midterms |
| March 15 |
Amy and Alex end their no feelings relationship after she presses him for something more |
| April 12 |
Amy's family and friends throw her a surprise 30th' Birthday party |
| Easter Break |
Amy returns to the area in South Africa of her Peace Corps service. |
| May 12 |
Yale semester ends; Amy begins another language study as part of her graduate work |
| May 22 |
Amy has lunch with Musette Gowan and they discuss the status of their love lives. |
| May 23 |
Amy invites Brendan over for lunch and she gives him the phone number of Corey Lindaugh, hoping to make a love match between the two. Later that evening, she has a date with Wes at the beach. |
| May 24 |
Cole comes over and they discuss the upcoming Manchester Family Reuinion in Vermont, to which Amy has invited him to help be her shield against her ex boyfriend, Steven Villard. That evening, her Road Hockey team, The Raiders, wins their opening game in the tournament. |
| May 25 |
Amy stops by to visit Alex after receiving a drunken voicemail from him the day before. |
| May 26 |
At Amy's family reunion event, she does fairly well early in the day to avoid being alone with Steven. Unfortunately, there is a point where she gets stuck with him in her grandmother's kitchen. Luckily for her, Cole comes to her rescue and on the fly concocts a plan to fend Stevne off by pretending that they are a couple. While immensely awkward at times, it is also highly amusing for them both and it is actually quite successful. |
| May 27 |
After returning from Vermont in the wee hours of the morning, a sexually frustrated Amy texts Wes, inviting him over. He accepts the invitation and they have finally sex. Later on in the morning, Wes attempts to leave to avoid the "morning after" and any complications that come with it. Surprisingly, Amy is not looking for more from him and instead convinces him to stay for their version of 'breakfast in bed'. That evening, The Raiders win their semi final match in the Road Hockey Tournament against Ethan and Brendan, and Corey's team, The Royals. |
| May 28 |
The Raiders win the Road Hockey Tournament, beating the other team that made the finals, The Dragons. |
| May 29 |
Softball season begins with the first practice..... |
| May 30 |
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| May 31 |
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| June |
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| July 4 |
Amy's parents celebrate their wedding anniversary.... |
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