The Sherwood Ring: Difference between revisions

''“Never mind arguing about it now,” my father interrupted me. “Wait till you see Rest-and-be-thankful; then you’ll understand. And take the look off your face! They’re not supposed to rattle chains or flap about wailing in misty sheets. All they do is come around sometimes when they happen to feel like it.”'' }}

 

 

When Peggy Grahame's father dies, she is sent to the old family home, Rest-and-be-thankful, in upstate New York to live with her cantankerous uncle Enos. Upon her arrival, she soon encounters an English university student, Pat Thorne, who's doing research on his family's history in the area... as well as Rest-and-be-thankful's resident ghosts, her Revolutionary War-era ancestors.

And the ghosts prove to be quite chatty. The four of them - Barbara Grahame, Richard Grahame, Eleanor Shipley, and Peaceable Drummond Sherwood - seek Peggy out over the course of several weeks to tell her each of their parts in the Grahame family's Revolution narrative. Their tale runs parallel to Peggy's own budding romance with Pat and helps her solve a little family mystery of her own.

 

* [[Abduction Is Love]]: Kiiiiind of happens in a roundabout way; the abduction is accidental, polite, and kind of a rescue, and she quickly manages to get herself out of the situation. They do, however, fall in love.

* [[The American Revolution]]: The setting of the narrative provided by the ghosts.