Iris Greenfeder feels a major part of her life is unfinished, so she writes a fairy tale about her mother, and in the process discovers a non-threatening way to deal with her mother's death years earlier.
While working in a sawmill in the Catskill Mountains of New York in the 1850s, fourteen-year-old Matt not only learns craftsmanship but also valuable lessons about life.
In the first of these stories from the Catskill Mountains, a superstitious schoolmaster encounters a headless horseman; in the second, a man sleeps for twenty years, waking to a much-changed world.
An idle man falls asleep in the Catskill Mountains only to wake up twenty years later, bewildered as to how life passed him by. 'Includes an analysis of the story and a biography of the author.
In the first of these stories from the Catskill Mountains, a superstitious schoolmaster encounters a headless horseman; in the second, a man sleeps for twenty years, waking to a much-changed world.