Juniata County - Paperback

by Thomas Patterson (Author)

Three children journey toward self-understanding and forgiveness in Juniata County, a chapbook collection of 18 poems that spans ninety years; World War II and the post-war era is a backdrop for the experiences many of the losses common to us all, throughout the collection; the setting, Juniata, Pennsylvaia, is an area rich in heritage with its Altoona railroad yards, back alleyways, summer porches, Valley of the Sesquehanna, Little Juniata River, Lakemont Amusement Park, and the Church of the Blessed Sacrament, which all weave through and around their childhood experiences.