"Clyde was hatched late in the spring the year Ada was eight years old. Ada loved him from the first moment she saw him and watched with increasing fondness as Clyde grew into a fine mallard drake. They became constant companioins in all the many summer joys of Pennsylvania Dutch farm life." [book jacket]
"A boy had to ride sometimes, or he would burst in pieces! Twelve-year-old Dirk, a son of the plain people, dearly loved his family and would not have traded shoes with any city boy. But, still, the ways of his people were so -this way exactly and no other way! It was hard to want to ride a horse so badly he 'could taste it,' and to have to forego the pleasure because 'a horse is to work.'" [book jacket]
"Martha Wenger loved dearly the beautiful Pennsylvania countryside where she had been born, and where her family had lived for so many years. But changes were taking place in the Amish colony, and some of the people of her faith wanted to move to another place where land was cheaper, and where farms could be provided for all the sons in the family. It was at her friend Katie's house that Martha had the dream which told her of a new barn that was to be raised- and sure enough, the dream came true, for the Wengers sold their Lancaster County farm and moved to the new colony in Maryland." [dust jacket]
A fictional story that follows 12-year-old Lancaster resident Andy Grove through the summer of 1912, when he lived with his grandparents in McSparran. The youth gets a job carrying water for a track-laying gang on the railroad.(The railroad of the story did in real life exist in southern Lancaster County. It was a narrow gauge railroad that ran between Peach Bottom and Oxford.)
The story of a fictional Pennsylvania Dutch, married couple in which a submissive wife endures the anger of her husband to the point of him vowing to no longer speak with her.
