Ceremonial Time
Subtitle: Fifteen Thousand Years on One Square Mile
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin (P)
Published: May 1991
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780395591291
First sentence: There is a plum grove just above the house in which I live, a tangled, unproductive group of some twelve trees that were planted sometime in the late 1920s by an old curmudgeon who lived in the house in the decades following the turn of the century.