Under the Harrow

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The author wishes to thank his publisher, David Poindexter, and his editor, Pat Walsh, for their long and undiminished support for his work and for this book in particular. A grateful nod should also go to Dave Adams and Joe Di Prisco for their editorial input, and to the staff of the Center for Southwest Research and Special Collections at the University of New Mexico’s Zimmerman Library who gave the author unrestricted access to their delicate 120-year-old set of the Ninth Edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica. The author also wishes to thank his friend Susan Guinter, who made herself available for even the most oddball sorts of questions about Lycoming County, Pennsylvania.

A few somewhat quixotic thank-yous are also in order: to Mr. Dickens, whose voice and literary spirit were greedily channeled for this book; to the Community Theatre League of Williamsport, Pennyslvania, whose support for the author’s work for the stage kept him returning over and over again to the beautiful valley of the West Branch of the Susquehanna River, which would play so prominent a role in his novel; to Teddy Roosevelt, subject of the author’s yet unpublished fictional biography, whose bully literary voice animated the account of the firefight at the foot of Belgrave Dam; and to Pennsylvania Senator Arlen Specter and Pennyslvania Governor Ed Rendell, who were unbeknownst inspirations for the characters of the “Senator” and the “Governor”.

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