1.   And as the fire dies down and the embers glow orange, the grown-ups sit back, smiling contentedly, perhaps remembering similar summer nights long ago.

2.   A siegelike mentality prevails in Arverne, where summers are remembered not for the heat but for the mosquito index.

3.   But mostly I remember summer.

4.   Donna remembers that summer fondly.

5.   I remember summer being a season of fear because summer was when polio stalked the neighborhood, crippling and killing.

6.   I remember that summer so clearly.

7.   Mrs. Knickerbocker has a unique way to remember those summers, she explained.

8.   Petty remembers his summers in the pools, where he would see the same kids every summer, ones he never saw during the school year.

9.   Remember this summer when every woman you knew was suddenly wearing a long dress?

10.   She remembers summers in Watertown, N.Y., with the smell of freshly mowed grass and the taste of corn she had picked herself.