Remembrance Rock (Masterplots, Revised Second Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Carl Sandburg
- First Published: 1948
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Historical chronicle
- Time of Work: 1607-1945
- Setting: England and America
- Principal Characters: Orville Brand Windom, Oliver Ball Windrow, Mary Windling, John Spong, Remember Spong, Orton Wingate, Peter Ladd, Resolved Wayfare, Ordway Winshore, Robert Winshore, John Locke Winshore, Marintha (Mim) Wilming, Oates Elwood, Ann, Omri Winwold, Joel Wimbler, Brooksany, Millicent (Mibs), Rodney Wayman
- Genres: Long fiction, Historical fiction
- Subjects: Family or family life, North America or North Americans, Northeast, U.S., United States or Americans, Parents and children, Colonies or colonization, Twentieth century, Nineteenth century, New England, Polygamy or bigamy, England or English people, American Revolution, Civil War, Fathers, Eighteenth century, Seventeenth century, Grandparents or grandchildren, Epidemics, Pilgrims or pilgrimages, Printing, Massachusetts Bay Colony
- Locales: United States, England
The Stories:
The rock stood in the cedar-shaded garden of former Supreme Court Justice Orville Brand Windom, a giant boulder about which he had scattered earth from Plymouth, Valley Forge, Gettysburg, the Argonne. The justice was old, with a deep and brooding concern for the American land, its history, its people. He spoke some of his ideas to the world in a radio broadcast he made in 1944. He recorded others in three chronicles of the living past that his grandson, Captain Raymond Windom, veteran of Okinawa, found in a locked box after the old man’s death. These...
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