Across Five Aprils
Publisher: Berkley Books
Published: 1986
Language: eng
Number of pages: 190
ISBN-13: 9780425102411
First sentence: ELLEN Creighton and her nine-year-old son, Jethro, were planting potatoes in the half-acre just south of their cabin that morning in mid-April, 1861; they were out in the field as soon as breakfast was over, and southern Illinois at that hour was pink with sunrise and swelling redbud and clusters of bloom over the apple orchard across the road.