Cover of Letting Swift River Go

Letting Swift River Go

Relates Sally Jane's experience of changing times in rural America, as she lives through the drowning of the Swift River towns in western Massachusetts to form the Quabbin Reservoir.

Audience
picture bookschildrens
Length
short · 32 pages

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