Sent north on a doctor’s orders in the summer of 1846, a Virginia boy nicknamed Pidgie writes to his cousin Bennie about the odd fishing town of Marblehead, the sea, the sailors and the splendid steamers. Letter by letter he finds that “little crooked Massachusetts” has more to offer than the two cousins once believed.
A gentle, unusual window on boyhood and regional pride before the Civil War. Download the free EPUB.