An establishment in Newbern Center, trading under the name of the Foto Art Shop, once displayed in its window a likeness of the twin sons of Dave Cowan. Side by side, on a lavishly fringed plush couch, they confronted the camera with differing aspects. One sat forward with a decently, even blandly, composed visage, nor had he meddled with his curls. His mate sat back, scowling, and fought the camera to the bitter end. His curls, at the last moment, had been mussed by a raging hand. This was in the days of an earlier Newbern, when the twins were four and Winona Penniman began to be their troubled mentor--troubled lest they should not grow up to be refined persons; a day when Dave Cowan, the …
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