Shadows of the Summer Solstice: . . .A Legend about a Farmer and the Green Ribbon Murder - Paperback

by Darci Leigh (Contribution by), Janice D. Cowen (Illustrator), Sharon Schaadt Cowen (Author)

". . . The story is as lurid as it is heartbreaking. . . .positively gripping and ends with a roar." --Kirkus Reviews

". . . a haunting book." --the IRTA Bulletin.

In high summer of 1872, Fred and Kate's young neighbor girl is brutally murdered. A tin peddler and three neighbor boys are arrested. A lengthy hearing puts the farm community's very livelihood under the threat of survival.

The bones of this story are true, inherited from the author's father. Fred and Kate were her great grandparents., Old Phil ("Duck Legs") Kromer reflects on the happenings from his room in The Golden Meadows Home nearly sixty years later.

"The whole world's been operatin' fer too long on 'bite and be bitten in return.'--"Duck Legs" Phil.