Voices of Pondicherry

“I wish some great catastrophe would happen to somebody (not me, of course) so that I might have something of importance to set down in my journal. But, I suppose everyone’s journal (who is foolish enough to keep one) is made up of everyday incidents, mixed up with a startling love adventure now and then.” Phebe F. Beach July 1, 1857

In 1857,...

Mathilde
Mathilde runs from the cruelty of slavery and makes her way North, helped along the way by Quakers and abolitionists. She encounters danger with every step, never sure who is a helper and who is an enemy.

The Abolitionists
When Joseph and Phebe Fessenden came to the peaceful village of South Bridgton, Maine to serve the newly founded...

Young Enoch Perley grows to manhood at a pivotal time in the nation’s history. He listens by the fireside to stories of war and adventure told by his swashbuckling uncle, General Israel Putnam. As he comes of age, the British regulars clash with local militia at Lexington and Concord. Enoch realizes that change is in the air. And that change...

“He sat at his own table that night, a lonely old man, missing the spirit and the laughter that once filled his house—a house he’d built with his own hands all those long years ago. The quiet got to him at night when the wind came blowing strong down from the mountain above. He could hear the beating of his heart, a steady thump, thump, thump....