First Page-A Family of Her Own-Author Ruth Axtell Morren

The First Page today is a novella from To Be A Mother by Author Ruth Axtell Morren:

Wood’s Harbor, Maine

1870

Noah Samuels walked past the crumbling stone wall, noting the wild rose creeping over everything. He kicked at a shoot growing across the paving stones. Tenacious stuff once it got going, almost impossible to get rid of, its roots spreading everywhere.

“Papa, why don’t we live here?” He glanced over at his daughter, who held his hand as they walked to the house he’d grown up in.

“It’s been sitting empty too long.” He remembered the place in his grandparents’ day. The lawn kept short by the grazing cow, the stone wall neatly stacked to form a boundary along the road, the walkway free of invading grass.

He dismissed the memory. No point in reminiscing about things long past. He was here to check on the storm damage from a few nights ago.

“Papa, who’s that?”

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