Cumberland"" gives a narrative and a vivid setting for these sentiments. The story is told by a writer who is the son of a moonshiner. He has moved to the city to contend with a more civilized existence, but he comes back to The Gap (Big Stone Gap, VA) every summer. This summer he brings along his little sister and a womanish, black-haired, black-eyed beauty that townspeople and mountainfolk perversely call ""The Blight."" And yet no man nor woman nor stubborn mule could withstand her undefinable appeal. The boy and two girls travel from the north by train and arrive in town where they meet the Hon. Samuel Budd who is involved with the budding politics of this new district, Marston who engineered the train, and a drunken young tough who tries to attack Marston for a timeless injustice. There is an immediate trial where the young man is fined and told to leave town. He does, but his vision of The Blight wins his attention. The three travelers continue on their way up the mountain (silently protected by The Knight) because the boy had promised to show The Blight the blossoming, fragrant, Applachian summer. Before winter hits, the girls are sent back up north, but they revisit the next summer where there is an uncommon incorporation of tournament, duel, and stump-speaking. Fox attempts to illustrate the ways people of the wilderness struggled--sometimes unsuccessfully--with the patronizing socialites. The character of Marston the engineer and The Wild Dog, who is also The Knight, blends the civilizing effects of steady work and the emotional attraction of magnificence, whether by scenic beauty or human elegance."  (less)

of her sexual awakening and admission into the never-changing mysteries in a southern California seaside town in the golden, long-ago summers of the 1930's. The little beach town is San Soleo (not to be found on any map), jerry-built just in time for the Great Depression, where time stopped when the money ran out. Virginia, in the course of the novel, evades rape, seduction, and drowning to reach a higher rung on the ladder of maturity. Bonnie Barrett has taken the oldest of themes and closed the time gap: she has caught the period and place with the fidelity of an old Glenn Miller recording, yet made it new, eventful, spicy, funny and harrowingly true. But more than that, she has evoked the bittersweet redolence of lost summers, lost youth, lost love, the time that for all of us lies drowning like Atlantis, now in a sea of changes.  (less)

1883 with the subtitle "A Tale of Tunstall Forest" beginning in Young Folks; A Boys'' and Girls'' Paper of Instructive and Entertaining Literature, vol. XXII, no. 656 (Saturday, June 30, 1883) and ending in the issue for Saturday, October 20, 1883 Stevenson had finished writing it by the end of summer. It was printed under the pseudonymn Captain George North. He alludes to the time gap between the serialization and the publication as one volume in 1888 in his preface "Critic [parodying Dickens''s "Cricket"] on the Hearth": "The tale was written years ago for a particular audience ....". Excerpted from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Intuitive navigation. . Text annotation and mark-up. .  (less)

the Broadway musical with the decade that bridged the gap between the romantic, fanciful entertainments of the fifties, such asiCall Me, Madam/i, to the seventies when sophisticated fare, such asiA Little Night Music/iandiFollies/i, was commonplace. Here in brilliant detail is the decade and the people that forever transformed the Broadway muscial.br/divDIV“What’s in It For You?”--The Shows of 1960 * “Twice as Much Grief”-iCamelot/i* “Expect Things to Happen”; or “Don’t Look Back”-Musical Comedy I * “A Romantic Atmosphere”--iThe Gay Life/iandiShe Loves Me/i* “Nothing More to Look Forward To”-Old Talent * “Summer is Over”-New Talent * “Eye on the Target”--iFunny Girl/i* “When Messiah Comes”-The Super-Director * “Hearts Grow Hard on a Windy Street”--iCabaret/i* “All Caught Up in her OO-LA-LA”-The English Musical * “Have You Got Charm?”-The Off-Broadway Musical * “Look Around Your Little World”-The Dark Show * “Everybody Has the Right to Be Wrong”-Good Ideas and Bad Ideas * “What Did I Have That I Don’t Have?”-Musical Comedy II * “I Don’t Want to Know”-Three Shows of 1969br/divDIV“What’s in It For You?”--The Shows of 1960 * “Twice as Much Grief”-iCamelot/i* “Expect Things to Happen”; or “Don’t Look Back”-Musical Comedy I * “A Romantic Atmosphere”--iThe Gay Life/iandiShe Loves Me/i* “Nothing More ?ÿ×=p£×ÿ¾Û€  (less)