here was their mother when she was young and impossibly gorgeous ; here their father , no more than eighteen , one of a trio of smiling rifle-toting young men standing over the open-eyed corpse of a deer ; uncle hoyt standing on some rocks and holding up a pickerel ; aunt fortuna , at the derry agricultural fair , kneeling proudly beside a basket of tomatoes she had raised ; an old buick automobile ; a church ; a house ; a road that went from somewhere to somewhere .