Table of Contents
About Main Street. 450,000,000 B.C.E. 2
Then
Our Year Without Summer. 1816 4
The War of the Rebellion. 1864 5
The Hanging of Daniel Farrow. 1871 6
On my Marriage Prospects. 1888 7
My Murder. Isaac Luhkman, Peddler. 1865-1893 8
Coffee at the Tears & Fears Café. 1919 10
Peonies. 1924 11
The Great Flood. 1927 12
The Forced Sterilization of the-Abenaki People. 1931 13
Mark on a Tree. 1936 14
A Talk by Margaret Beech, Retired Army Nurse 15
For Grades One Through Three, Hawk Hill Schoolhouse. 1952 16
Susan Rowen Comes to Elsewhere Farm. 1966 18
The Veteran's Wife. 1974 19
Bob Brown Recalls. 1982 20
After the Hostile Takeover. 1990 21
On September Eleventh, 2001 22
Margaret Gadreau's Mike. 2007 23
Pond Brook. 2011 24
Now
Dawn. Sanctuary, Vermont 27
Behind the Green Hedge 28
To November Gods 29
Midnight Till Four 30
Amanda Rowe's Dream 31
At the Assisted Living Facility 32
Max's Cure 33
In April 34
ICE 35
Song of the Cash Register Associate 36
M. "Rif" Williams Plays the Tears & Fears Café 37
From a Map of the Region 41
Elle Itoua Dreams 42
At the Assisted Living Facility (2) 43
My Husband Doesn't Talk About the War 44
Splitting Wood. Veterans Day 45
I Imagine You in the Workshop 46
After Watching That Show on DNA and Race 47
After the Divorce 48
Her Story 50
Diary. November 2016 51
What Ramona Knows 52
Ventilator Policy at Plum Lake Clinic. 2020 53
The Difference Between a Year and a Lifetime 54
Our Love is as Old 55
The Tears & Fears Cafe Offers Curbside Pick-up 57
Plum Lake Rural Clinic #10.2061 59
Acknowledgments 61
About the Author 63
About Orison Books 64
