"A story of the New World venturers, of wilderness and settlement, of witchcraft and war ... Based on the lives of Mary Bliss Parsons and Sarah Lyman Bridgeman and the men they loved, this fictional account of a true story transports [the reader] to a land founded on a dream, where life was uncertain, and where fear and jealousy would lead to ruin."--Page 4 of cover.
... quality has improved enough to move the river from class C (no fishing or swimming) to class B (both are allowed). Riverfront parks are springing up in cities that had long seen the river only as a flood threat or a convenient dump.
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
" This intimate collection of stories is a quiet quest for meaning in a rugged physical and psychic terrain.