“Local baseball pitching prospect Lukas McDowell, briefly back in Kingston at his parents' Point Pleasant home, instinctively ducks a split-second before passing through a doorway that leads into the family kitchen.

Time once was when the oldest of Matt and Petra's two children cleared that passageway without a thought. Not anymore. These days, if he doesn't duck, he'll dent his forehead, to speak nothing of the damage he might do to the door jamb.”