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It's a coming of age story beginning with a summer vacation,
climaxing on a full moonlit Halloween night. They're teens now -
and their club president, Mary Crane, decides to follow her
teacher's suggestion of getting a Pen Pal for the summer. She
writes to a boy her mother had read about in the newspaper - a
Pennsylvania lad. He writes back. As the summer unfolds one of the
teens is witness to a crime in progress. Innocently the young Pen
Pal to the club's president unwittingly helps them not only solve
the mystery of just who the crooks are but they also solve what
turns out to be an unresolved military mystery dating back to the
War and still lingering in the shadows of the D-Day invasion. Was
it coincidence that Mary's Pen Pal just happens to be a grandson of
the president of the United States? It's more than a Halloween
story, it's a history book. It might be to today's chronicles of
the past what Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was in 1884. With a
backdrop of rural life and times as they were in 1953 this novel
reawakens our faded memory and colorfully illustrates two vanishing
landmarks, both epics of an American culture and world history. The
family farm for one and sad as it may be, the fleeting memories of
the pivotal D-Day Invasion under Supreme Commander General Dwight
David Eisenhower - the other. Without either we could have lost the
War. This novel brings them both back to life in absorbing detail -
it's a fable with a solid footing of the times for the tale's
lasting cultural relevance. It all happened amidst five country
towns, a few villages and hamlets where more than sixty five family
farms were busy raising children, apples, corn, and wheat, and -
all told - milking about 3,200 cows.
A Novel First Edition "Mark Twain meets the Greatest Generation The
Pompey Hollow Book Club is the best kind of novel: charming, but
with teeth. The narration exudes an experienced innocence with
characters at once empathic and courageous. One might be tempted to
call its setting a bygone era had this era not fashioned our
world... this work moved me deeply." --Stuart Horwitz, Book
Architecture
A must read for every parent, grandparent, teacher or attorney
experiencing or witnessing a broken home where children are
involved. It was inspired by a child - written by her dad - and it
promises to help anyone who keeps it as ready reference.
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