About The Book
The rugged hills of Vermont look down upon a quaint Village called Cavendish. Its most famous citizen, the brown-bearded Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, the Russian dissident, lives just downhill from the Parson family, the Story’s main characters. Mother and father Parsons have twins: seven-year-old Betsy and William. Today, on the first of May, each are attending a May Day celebration at Greven Park. After the children have eaten their breakfast, their mother makes sure that each has their cute little May Day baskets to give to their assigned classmate partner as dad quietly toils on the family farm.
Upon arriving at school, the entire first-grade class loads up on the School Bus to frolic about at Greven Park. As they walk onto the Park’s baseball field, they see a pastel-colored, crepe-papered pole with a grand total of nine arms laying gently in a circle around the centered apparatus. Outside the baseball’s left field fence winds the Great Brook that twists and turns through town that eventually meets up with the rambunctious Ominous Black River.
The Principal and the school administrative staff chaperone the rambunctious youth as they scamper to and from beneath the late morning sun. One gets the feeling that the “Rite of Spring” has taken hold of the day as birds chirp, bees buzz, and butterflies flitter about above the Brook’s swirling waters.
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