Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
It is high summer in 1872. Farmers toil in the sweltering heat to harvest what promises to be a bumper crop. They work six days a week, sometimes sixteen hours a day. Wives and children participate in the intense labor. On Sunday, they feed their livestock, themselves, and then attend church. On June, 23, their reliable routine is shattered. The bones of this story are true. It was inherited from the author's father whose grandparents, Fred and Kate, were next-door neighbors to a thirteen-year-old girl named Mary. The decisions they participate in are destined to soak through four generations. Old Phil reflects on the happenings from his room in The Golden Meadows Home nearly sixty years later. "The whole world's been operatin' fer too long on 'bite and be bitten in return.'--Duck Legs Phil.
Synopsis
It is high summer in 1872 when Fred and Kate's young neighbor girl is brutally murdered and their farm community's very livelihood is under the threat of survival.
The bones of this story are true. It was inherited from the author's father. Fred and Kate were his grandparents., Old Phil reflects on the happenings from his room in The Golden Meadows Home nearly sixty years later:
"The whole world's been operatin' fer too long on 'bite and be bitten in return.'--Duck Legs Phil.
Synopsis
". . . The story is as lurid as it is heartbreaking. . . .positively gripping and ends with a roar. An affecting story--unflinchingly conveyed and emotionally challenging." --Kirkus Reviews ". . . a haunting book." --the IRTA Bulletin.
In high summer of 1872, Fred and Kate's young neighbor girl is brutally murdered. A tin peddler and three neighbor boys are arrested. A lengthy hearing puts the farm community's very livelihood under the threat of survival.
The bones of this story are true, inherited from the author's father. Fred and Kate were her great grandparents., Old Phil ("Duck Legs") Kromer reflects on the happenings from his room in The Golden Meadows Home nearly sixty years later.
"The whole world's been operatin' fer too long on 'bite and be bitten in return.'--"Duck Legs" Phil.
Synopsis
". . . The story is as lurid as it is heartbreaking. . . .positively gripping and ends with a roar." --Kirkus Reviews ". . . a haunting book." --the IRTA Bulletin.
In high summer of 1872, Fred and Kate's young neighbor girl is brutally murdered. A tin peddler and three neighbor boys are arrested. A lengthy hearing puts the farm community's very livelihood under the threat of survival.
The bones of this story are true, inherited from the author's father. Fred and Kate were her great grandparents., Old Phil ("Duck Legs") Kromer reflects on the happenings from his room in The Golden Meadows Home nearly sixty years later.
"The whole world's been operatin' fer too long on 'bite and be bitten in return.'--"Duck Legs" Phil.
Synopsis
". . . The story is as lurid as it is heartbreaking. . . .positively gripping and ends with a roar." --Kirkus Reviews ". . . a haunting book." --the IRTA Bulletin.
True crime from rural Midwest,1872. Brutal murder. Devastated community. Arrests. Unwieldy hearing. Survival becomes questionable.
"The whole world's been operatin' fer too long on 'bite and be bitten in return.'--"Duck Legs" Phil.