Dory Codington
A story about the young woman nicknamed the Alewife. She is a brewer whose tavern is at the Lower Falls of the Charles River in Newton, Mass, not far from where I live and very near to where I grew up. Nina Bigelow is a young widow who married at sixteen, but only six days later her young husband marched with his militia to Michigan in the last battles of the French and Indian War and was killed. This left Nina with the inn and a tiny baby.
Nina's story, Beside Turning Waters begins in the early summer of 1775 when the soldiers of Washington's army, then encamped at Cambridge, discover that the Wheel and Hammer is a great place to ride to for dinner and good ale.
This is the tavern where Jason and Michael Goodiel stop at for a meal in my first book, Cardinal Points. In that story Jason wishes his pretty hostess Nina, a grand love. This is the story of the Massachusetts countryside during the siege of Boston, and of Nina's eventual grand love.
Nina's story, Beside Turning Waters begins in the early summer of 1775 when the soldiers of Washington's army, then encamped at Cambridge, discover that the Wheel and Hammer is a great place to ride to for dinner and good ale.
This is the tavern where Jason and Michael Goodiel stop at for a meal in my first book, Cardinal Points. In that story Jason wishes his pretty hostess Nina, a grand love. This is the story of the Massachusetts countryside during the siege of Boston, and of Nina's eventual grand love.
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