he remembered his childhood here as a fearful , nervous time ... not only because of the summer of '58 , when the seven of them had faced the terror , but because of george 's death , the deep dream his parents seemed to have fallen into following that death , the constant ragging about his stutter , bowers and huggins and criss constantly on the prod for them after the rockfight in the barrens ( bowers and huggins and criss , oh my !