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Using Kate Codington's poems, short stories and memoirs, Dory Codington tells the story of a remarkable woman who observed and wrote, most of the twentieth century.

Philadelphia, July 10, 1776 Rebecca sat down at the river to clear her head. Lovely ships, their sails and lines speaking of faraway places, drew her in and let her forget how angry she was. She opened her book and started sketching the graceful Queen Bess. She was a three masted merchantman with a fantastic figurehead of a beautiful red headed mermaid. As she finished, a shadow fell over her work. She looked up to see a tall man with ice blue eyes staring over her shoulder. He offered to buy her sketch, and to take her to lunch. Might he also offer something else? A way to captain her own...

The third book in the Edge of Empire Series, Beside Turning Water begins at the Battle of Bunker Hill, June 1775, and continues through the last year of siege and occupation in Boston, and the Army's move to New York the following year. The story centers in Newton, then considered Boston's countryside, at the Wheel and Hammer, a tavern built at the bend of the river, where the young widow, Nina Bigelow is the proprietor and brewer. Nina is content with her life, and resists change, those over which she has control, and those changes that are happening in the world around her. Those changes...