This is a story about what home can mean to those fortunate enough to have spent their early lives in a place with a family history. It opens when the three Adams children face the fateful summer when Maiden Run seems besieged. The echoes of that summer sound in each of their lives thereafter. The theme of what is so often lost to "progress" runs through the story the way Maiden Run flows through the farm. Finally, the Adams children must deal each in his or her own way with how to continue without that place, and we are reminded of how deep some roots grow.
Joan L. Cannon, a native of New York City, has been a teacher, an editor, and above all a reader. She is the author of a novel, Settling, a number of published short stories, and currently writes reviews and essays for the on-line magazine Senior Women Web. She lives in a retirement community near the Blue Ridge mountains in North Carolina.
Joan L. Cannon, a native of New York City, has been a teacher, an editor, and above all a reader. She is the author of a novel, Settling, a number of published short stories, and currently writes reviews and essays for the on-line magazine Senior Women Web. She lives in a retirement community near the Blue Ridge mountains in North Carolina.