The
Harkness family Chronicles
The
Family's story told by different voices throughout their generations.
“
Antietam To a National Anthem “
The Harkness Family Chronicles Book #1
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As a young man newly returned
from the horrors of four years of bloody struggle and want in the War Between the brothers Woodrow Harkness is sure of only
one thing, he wants to look forward to building a new life in the wilderness frontier untainted by the shame and regrets of
the recent past. Married to an older woman with a young son, he sets out to forge a heritage for his family that last generations,
like the house he builds that he hope will last a hundred years into a future he can not begin to guess.
Told in a series of letter to GOD from Woodrow Harkness
“ A Son to War, Letters to GOD From a Quiet Spirit on the Home Front “
Reprinted by permission of Star of Bethlehem Press 1999
The Harkness
Family Chronicles Book #2
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After making good her escape from the stifling sameness of life on a frontier homestead, Amanda's
daughter Maude Amy was called back from her job in the City at Ponce's Hotel to marry a simple farm hand after her brother
Tom's death in a farming accident. Learning from her mother's refusal to be bitter even though Life doesn't grant her
any of the things she so desperately craves, Maude Amy's marriage to Amos Webb, a humble and self educated man who was forced
to quit school in third grade to support his widowed mother and sickly baby sister simply to keep her grandfather's homestead
in the family. It proved to be a fruitful and deeply conented life, but their gneration too is faced with war as their two
older boys are drawn into the global conflict of World War II and she and Amoss are left in a changed America dealing with
raising their three remaining children, two boys and a willful girl as best they can.
Told
in a series of letter to GOD from Amos Webb.
“ Avid “ ~ The Story of Maude Any Webb "
The Harkness Family Chronicles Book #3
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As Maude Amy nears the the end of her last year of life she looks within herself
and
her family history to find a special and unique gift for each of her five living children
that
will help to keep the dream alive in the house that Woodrow Harkness built.
Told in a series of letter to GOD from Amos Webb
“ A Country Homecoming “
The Harkness Family Chronicles Book #4
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A 100-year-old Judge from the Philadelphia
Black Circuit comes to ask Amos and Maude Amy's permission to have a family member with him to record his life's story
as he's dying, wanting to be nearest the place where he was and their family were born. But Vernon Emmett
brings alive something much more dangerous thought buried in the long dead past that shaped the generations now and those
yet to come in the Homestead Woodrow Harkness built on his first trip West!
Told in a series of letter to GOD from Amos Webb
“
America’s Child “
The Harkness Family Chronicles
Book #4
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Richard "Beau" Webb was only fourteen years old when he ran away from his family's
home in the heartland of America to enlist in the war effort in Europe. He and discovered and the War
ended before he could be shipped out overseas, but no one was surprised that he enlisted, with his parent's grudging permission
to become 'an air poliot' in the Korean Conflict. What caught everyone off guard was when he married a Korean girl and
tried to sneak her ino the United State! Realizing the fulitlty of his act, Beau gives up his dream of returning to the family
farm until he can find a leag way for him and his beloved little wife to enter the country properly and be lawfully
wed in his great-grandfather's house. Life seldom sees things through the lens of a child and as she is being slipped back
to her homeland she is raped by three soldiers and gives birth to a half-birth girl. In shame, he doesn't even give him the
chance to show his true nature and she commits sucide rather than face him. Taking the child home through proper channels.
Beau has raised "Sunny" on the family homestead. definy friens or family to say she isn't his his!
Now happily married.to a Black Architect, with a four-year-old son of her own that she loves as fiercely as
her Daddy Beau loved her, she is torn between a deep need to protect the family home she grew up in and the question of whether
or not it is right to subject her son to the clannishness of a small town too intimately involved in her youthful struggles
for independence and self-respect. This time she isn't as alone as her young mother ~ until the moment she confronts
the aging man who was clearly her biological father and the past has to be put right, once and for all.
Told
in a series of e-mail letters from Sunny Webb and the answers given to her.
“ ‘A’ is For Amos, ‘B’ Is Something You are, 'C'
is for Crystal Springs … “
The Harkness family Chronicles Book #6
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The Harkness Family Chronicles is completed with Maude Amy's grandson Hank as he and his young
wife struggle with the rest of the family to keep the homestead in family hands through the challenges of Mega-farm
grouth during the first year of life for their twins.
Told in a series of letters to GOD from Henry 'Hank'
Webb, James' oldest living son
