The album was prepared by Portia L. Young (1920-2015) to document her family's activities between June 6, 1964 and April 2, 1965. Like a scrapbook, it contains a wide assortment of objects and ephemeral literature, including Christmas, birthday and valentine cards, snapshots, tourist literature and souvenirs, picture postcards, guide maps, programs, tickets, newspaper clippings, and pin-back buttons issued to visitors and in the 1964 presidential race, down to placemats, decorative sugar packets, cardboard badges and a dried magnolia leaf from Mount Vernon. Unlike many family scrapbooks, each object or group of objects is accompanied by substantial typed text describing the family's experiences and reactions. The album constitutes an interesting look into the lives of a small-town, conventionally-religious, store-owning family just as the "long 1950s" was coming to an end and the tumults of the late 1960s and 1970s were just beginning to appear on the horizon.

The album begins with a one-month vacation to Florida. as far as Key West. The family traveled in a station wagon and trailer, staying in trailer parks and tourist camps. In the spring of 1965, as the album ends, they have purchased a new Airstream trailer. The itinerary includes many of the "roadside attractions" that catered to history buffs and Florida tourists before the construction of the mega-parks around Orlando. Returning to Pennsylvania, they attended the Boy Scout Jamboree at Valley Forge and collected a printed guide to the Philadelphia Phillies 1964 season when they attended a home game. They collected tickets for a never-to-be held game two of the World Series, printed in advance when it looked as though the Phillies would win the pennant instead of suffering a last-minute defeat.

The late summer brought the 60th anniversary of the family store and another extended trip to the New York World's Fair. In addition to the usual fair ephemera, the text describes their reactions to the exhibits and the problems posed by long lines and waiting times. At the fair, Harold Young (1918-2008) joined the Shriners. The album ends in the early spring of 1965 with a swing through the historic plantations on the Northern Neck of Virginia.

The album records family events, such birthdays and illnesses. The Youngs noted the visits to Pottstown by Reverand Norman Vincent Peale (1898-1993), and Governor William W. Scranton (1917-2013), who broke ground for a new bypass highway, that coincidentally would contribute to the decline of the Young's downtown shopping district. They also recorded their votes in the Johnson-Goldwater election and collected campaign literature and pins from both parties. Young clipped sections from Life magazine on Gus Grissom's flight in Project Gemini, and from local papers on the first appearance of skateboarding. She also alludes to racial unrest in Jersey City during their World's Fair visit, and there are very brief notices of the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution and the landing of combat troops in Vietnam. In retrospect, these events mark the turning of a page in American history, almost perfectly synchronized to the closing of the album.