A Sign of the Times

by Emil Cicogna

Overview

“I believe ignorance in the long run will prove far more expensive.” Newly arrived school teacher, Leanna Pallas, is committed to bringing education to a rural Pennsylvania town in 1885. Not everyone there values education as much as Miss Pallas. The Collier family have been blacksmiths for generations. Now they must decide if they should send their teenage son Joshua to school, or train him to work in the family business. Threatened with impending poverty, the family must realize that the world they knew has changed, and so must their plans for the future.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940152968507
Publisher:	Emil Cicogna
Publication date:	04/11/2016
Sold by:	Smashwords
Format:	eBook
File size:	218 KB

About the Author

Emil Cicogna is an online instructor for the College of Education at Grand Canyon University in Phoenix, Arizona. He worked for twenty-five years as an English and Language Arts teacher in New York City and Phoenix public schools. The inspiration for this novel came after teaching students history through literature. Emil's grandfather was a blacksmith, and as a child, he learned that a trade which had been so vital for centuries became all but obsolete in the wake of the Industrial Revolution. In addition to teaching, Emil is completing his dissertation and several other books, including a sequel to "A Sign of the Times."