The Mirror of History explores the Thames's geology, early history and mythology with wonderful facts and anecdotes. The Thames has been a highway, a frontier and an attack route; it has been a playground and a sewer, a source of water and a source of power.
Maggie vowed to never marry a man who can’t laugh or dance, but when she and the dull new doctor in town, Everett Dulanis, wind up spending the night together in an abandoned dugout house, all that changes. Her father is the best man and his shotgun is the bridesmaid at the wedding where a union has been made, but there’s certainly no unity. Everett was engaged to Carolina Prescott, a southern lady in...