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At the Concord of the Rivers
At the Concord of the Rivers
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Abigail, a Harvard graduate student, drives from Concord intending to carry out research in Natick. After a car accident, she finds herself, not sixteen miles from home but three hundred and sixty-six years in the past. Stunned both in body and mind by her strange circumstances, she makes her way to Colonial Concord where the widowed Hannah invites her to stay. Assuming that she is in the seventeenth century only temporarily, Abigail eagerly observes the daily life around her, as if she were on a field trip gathering notes for her history thesis. Soon however, she changes from being the objective observer to accepting the friendship of the ailing Hannah and the love of her nephew, Paul. Aware that her tall, lanky body and outspoken personality are in conflict with the accepted norm for Puritan women, she worries about survival in these dangerous times. Why was she brought back to the very period that she has studied? Does she have a mission in the seventeenth century? Can she and half-Indian Paul build a fulfilling life together without running afoul of local politics and scheming relatives? Or is it all really a dream?
Anne Ipsen is the author of two memoirs: "A Child’s Tapestry of War—Denmark 1940-45" (1998) and "Teenage Immigrant" (2004); and three historical novels: "Karen from the Mill—a novel from the golden age of sail" (2005) and "Running before the Prairie Wind—an historical novel of Southwestern Minnesota" (2009). "In At the Concord of the Rivers" she continues to draw on her fascination with history to explore the special town that is Concord, Massachusetts, using time travel to envision Puritan society through the eyes of a modern historian. As in her previous work, Ipsen evokes a sense of place, transporting us to the early years of the town whose enduring spirit is still heard around the world 375 years after its founding.
Endorsement from the Back Cover:
Here is an informative and entertaining little jaunt through the events and daily life in a New England village one hundred years before the American Revolution. Told through the adventures of a young woman caught in a strange, looping time warp, the book offers, among other things, more detail on the handiwork of women in those heady times than you could find through any single source. A good read.
John H. Mitchell, author of “Ceremonial Time, Fifteen Thousand Years on One Square Mile.”
Anne Ipsen is the author of two memoirs: "A Child’s Tapestry of War—Denmark 1940-45" (1998) and "Teenage Immigrant" (2004); and three historical novels: "Karen from the Mill—a novel from the golden age of sail" (2005) and "Running before the Prairie Wind—an historical novel of Southwestern Minnesota" (2009). "In At the Concord of the Rivers" she continues to draw on her fascination with history to explore the special town that is Concord, Massachusetts, using time travel to envision Puritan society through the eyes of a modern historian. As in her previous work, Ipsen evokes a sense of place, transporting us to the early years of the town whose enduring spirit is still heard around the world 375 years after its founding.
Endorsement from the Back Cover:
Here is an informative and entertaining little jaunt through the events and daily life in a New England village one hundred years before the American Revolution. Told through the adventures of a young woman caught in a strange, looping time warp, the book offers, among other things, more detail on the handiwork of women in those heady times than you could find through any single source. A good read.
John H. Mitchell, author of “Ceremonial Time, Fifteen Thousand Years on One Square Mile.”
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