The Song & its Singer

Retired USMC officer professor returns to hometown to research Viking ancestry. Though supported by the local pastor, Christian resentment of his self-fashioned Belief flares up in entrapment in a burning barn by elder stepbrother, a charge of murder in the second degree by the ‘Princess’ postmistress; black-balling and dynamite by a nearby pastor, the retiree begins his research only to find the ‘Princess’ persistent in a womanly fashion for a different end for which he fears he is unfit.

The author was born 17 May, 1925, in Bergland, MI, UP. He had five older sisters, and one brother. After age six, he was a farm boy in Ottawa National Forest Porcupine Mountains, with wood heat, light by kerosene, and water from the barn hand pump. Tools: pencil, fork, spoon, scissors, shovel, pitchfork, plow, hoe, axe, crosscut saw, .22 rifle. Skills: write, read, eat, darn, harness/drive, find/milk, deliver with sled-wagon, sing hymns/operetta, basketball, football; hunt/trap, learn. Adulthood: WW II Marine, AB, MA, PhD, Professor of English (Ret); Wed twice, four boys, USMC (Ret).