A Nelsonville Sojourn

By Steven Franklin Mount

In 1814, in the midst of a war with England, Daniel Nelson left his comfortable home in Massachusetts and brought his young family west to the new state of Ohio. There, in the rolling hills in the southeast he wrested from the wilderness first a homestead and then a town. To his good fortune, his town was surrounded by some of the richest coal fields in the nation. As the demand for the "black gold" multiplied to power the nation's industrial revolution, the fortunes of the town skyrocketed and it became one of the wealthiest in the state for nearly fifty years, until both the coal and the town were exhausted. One hundred and seventy years later, one of Daniel's ancestors retreats to his hometown to escape marital difficulties and a hectic New York City life. Rather than the calm backwater he sought in which to recuperate, he finds shocking news about his ancestry, an entanglement with a divorced ex-lover, and a local priest with legal difficulties. The tapestry created by weaving stories of the actual founder and his fictional descendant creates a piece of historical fiction that is both informative and exciting.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0990433005
• ISBN13: 9780990433002
• Release Date: January 2016
• Publisher: Treeangle Publishing Company LLC
• Length: 321 Pages
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 6.0" x 9.0"