Includes the first of six articles by M.F.K. Fisher about growing up in a small Episcopalian enclave in the predominantly Quaker community of Whittier, California, all of which were reprinted in her 1971 book Among Friends. This article, called "Enclave: The Kind And Quiet" in the New Yorker, was titled "Prologue: Child of an Inner Ghetto" in Among Friends.