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Winner, Silver Medal, IPPY AWARDS (Regional Fiction) Elizabeth's Field captures the realities of pre-Civil War life on Maryland's Eastern Shore and creates characters that struggle in extraordinary adversity. Lockhart traces the branches of several generations of black families, their histories merging, the memories of their grandparents' miseries fading yet not forgotten. Her carefully limned descriptions of the land - the profusion of flora ...

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Bouncing into the weeds from the back of a pickup truck, a little blue and yellow raft begins a day of adventures on a river of the Chesapeake Bay. Originally intended as a birthday present for a water-man's son, the raft is found by a couple of fun-loving children and becomes their "pirate ship." Later it serves as a pool for a noisy brood of ducklings and a circus tent for some excited young muskrats. And that's only part of the raft's wande...

Mosey, a long-legged, lumbering kind of dog, has a napping place in the middle of a corn field, but when the plow comes through, followed later by the planter, Mosey can no longer find his spot. As the corn grows, Mosey's adventures in the field include exploring tunnels in the corn rows, chasing rabbits, finding relief from the summers heat, and, at the end of the season, experiencing the terrifying (to him) appearance of a combine. Mosey's F...

A collection of short stories by award-winning writer Barbara Lockhart, a native of New York City who lives on Maryland's Eastern Shore. Lockhart is the recipient of two Individual Artist Awards in Fiction from the Maryland State Arts Council for her short stories and her first novel, Requiem for a Summer Cottage, as well as a silver medal from the Independent Book Publishers Awards for her historical novel, Elizabeth's Field. She has authored...

In this colorful book you will find shapes everywhere. Take time to pause...you might be surprised at what you see.