Despite his best efforts, Richard Webb is sent home from Korea when
the Army discovers he was underage, but when he went to Korea as a young soldier and fell in love with a Korea girl. he set
events in motions that profoundly altered their lives and those living on the Homestead. After a rape by three soldiers,
she gives birth to a dark skinned baby and commits suicide in shame without even giving "Beau" a chance to share
his love. He brought the girl home to the United States, properly, and now, grown and married with a young four year old son
of her own "Sunny" Webb is the only child of her generation willing to fight to keep the homestead intact...but
is she willing to sacrifice her family's chances happiness for the debt to the loving 'father' who raised her?
The continuing saga of Woodrow and
Caitlin Harkness’ Homestead
carries the Webb Family
into the Federal Bicentennial of 1976.
The first generation raised in the shadow of the gentle, self-educated farmer
struggles with
the issue of keeping the family roots intact in the face
of sprawling urban growth,
the demands for costly modernization,
and the shrinking numbers of family farm around the Nation.
James, Penny
Acres, Beau and Sandy families face unexpected challenges
as seen through the eyes of Amos Webb’s Black and Korean
Granddaughter
whom Beau brought home to Slumberbrook Farm to raise as his own,
as the past and the present merge
on the threshold of a new America,
