We’d just passed the fire alarm on the corner of Frances and Fleming Streets when a towheaded kid in overalls, with no shirt on underneath, waved to us from the front step of his house.

A mother trails three racing towheaded boys, one of whom stares undaunted at gigantic piles of sharded redwood and cypress and says, “Mommy, I want a stick.”

Rhett, then a towheaded boy with a round face, spoke at the State Capitol to urge lawmakers to pass a stricter vaccination requirement that was sparked by the measles outbreak.

Hogan is pale and towheaded, with soft features and trusting blue eyes.

A towheaded orphan, the narrator is raised by a domineering woman whose husband loses La China in a card game to the drunken gaucho Martín Fierro.