Describes what took place to start the great Civil War and the ending of the war with Kansas joining the Union as a 'free state'. It describes one small community starting with a school, moving the community to be near the two railroads. The times of the Sunflower State Refinery and ending and as the community changed to survive.

Poet Mary Howard grew up in Boston but spent summers living in a stone mill in West Stockbridge, Massachusetts. There, her father taught her how to fish and throw a machete; her brother, how to climb trees; and her grandmother, how to write a poem every night before bed. Thus began a lifelong passion for the natural world and for poetry. Many walks in the woods and much travel in the world beyond inspired the images and feelings in this book, her first collection of poems and photographs. Mary Howard divides her time between New York City and the Berkshires.

From the author of 'Discovering the Body' (..".a book so sure-handed and graceful that you might forget it's a murder mystery..." New York Times Book Review) comes a suspenseful story of doubt, delusion and fierce loyalty.

From the author of Discovering the Body (..".a book so sure-handed and graceful that you might forget it's a murder mystery..." New York Times Book Review), comes a suspenseful story of doubt, delusion and fierce loyalty. Linda Garbo's good friend Esther, a voice actress, has a remarkable flair for accents and dialects, and for creating vivid characters on her local radio show Willing Suspension. Esther has schizophrenia, which for years has been controlled so well that only close friends and family have been aware of her occasional psychotic breaks. But as the story opens, the usually warm...