Table of Contents
Introduction:
Working on the Birth and Death of Planeville
Book I ~ The River Valley People
Chapter One ~ Running from Fire
Chapter
Two ~ Wilhelm's Birth
Chapter Three ~ Wilhelm's Play
Chapter Four ~ Falling in Love
Chapter Five ~ Courting Amy
Chapter Six ~ Wilhelm's Disappearance
Chapter Seven ~ Building Planeville
Chapter Eight ~ Wilhelm's Absence
Chapter Nine ~ The Lessons of
the Water
Chapter Ten ~ Wilhelm's Return
Book II ~ The Settling of Planeville
Chapter Eleven ~ Moving to Planeville
Chapter Twelve ~ The Great Bog
Chapter Thirteen ~ Meme's Hand
on Them
Chapter Fourteen ~ The Middle
Generation
Chapter Fifteen ~ The Next Generation
of Vision
Chapter Sixteen ~ Taking the
Gift
Chapter Seventeen ~ A Storm
is Coming
Chapter Eighteen ~ Meme's Last
Sermon
Book III ~ The Next Generation
Chapter Nineteen ~ The Sweep
of Death
Chapter Twenty ~ A Brother Found
and Lost
Chapter Twenty-One ~ The Girls
Chapter Twenty-Two ~ The Black-Stocking
Preacher
Chapter Twenty-Three ~ A Passing
Threat
Chapter Twenty-Four ~ To Protect
the Family
Chapter Twenty-Five ~ A Falling
Tree
Chapter Twenty-Six ~ The Failing
Book IV ~ Long Winter Storms
Chapter Twenty-Seven ~ The Endless
Winter
Chapter Twenty-Eight ~ The Slide
into Spring
Chapter Twenty-Nine ~ The Thief
of the Alder Swamp
Chapter Thirty ~ A Change
Chapter Thirty-One ~ The War
Chapter Thirty-Two ~ From the
Front
Chapter Thirty-Three ~ The Old
Peddler
Book V ~ Abandonment
Chapter Thirty-Four ~ The Damage
Done
Chapter Thirty-Five ~ The End
of the War
Chapter Thirty-Six ~ Fighting
the Great Bog
Chapter Thirty-Seven ~ Damming
the River
Chapter Thirty-Eight ~ Amy Alone
Chapter Thirty-Nine ~ The Change
in the Times
Chapter Forty ~ The Last One
in the Line