When Day Is Done is a romance set in western NC.  While visiting her brother’s grave at Oak Grove Cemetery, Esther Robertson, a divorced community college instructor, meets Davis Lee Johnson, a down-on-his-luck cemetery maintenance worker, who will soon offer her an escape from a dull and lonely life.  But social prejudices and old family troubles arise to threaten the couple’s growing intimacy.  Fred Chappell praises When Day Is Done as ”a love story of steadfast hearts….A real treasure!”

My granddaughter always looks through the free brochures and pamphlets when she goes anywhere. Last week, she ate at Shoney’s with her Mom and brought me home some brochures on Asheville she picked up. One of them was on a sidewalk tour I thought might be interesting for a tourist to take. Its called a moving sidewalk tour. You ride standing up on a glider called a Segway with LeanSteer technology, its not a bike. Anyway, the tour is of Downtown Asheville and starts at the Visitor’s center. The tour takes about 2 to 2 and a half hours. It sure beats walking.

I had to read this book for a Native American History class I took at UNCA here in Asheville NC this past semester so I thought I’d share some of my essays with my readers.

The Unredeemed Captive by John Demos was about Eunice Williams’ captivity and the ordeal her family went through to try and get her to return home. Eunice was captured together with her family and over 100 other town residents in the Deerfield raid of 1704. Demos accurately described the Deerfield raid, the captives’ trek to Canada and some individual’s captivity experience. He gave reasons for the raid and why it was successful. In addition, he described the Kahnawake Indian village where Eunice lived, their society, customs and so forth. Since very little is known about Eunice, Demos attempted to describe how he thought her life would have been like by relating life in the Kahnawake village. To read more, see Book Review