More Maple Hill Stories

When Roderick Turnbull began writing his "Maple Hill Stories," for The Kansas City Star, he thought he'd have enough material for three or four feature stories, but no more. But Turnbull underestimated the wealth of memories he had stored away in his boyhood days in the country town of Maple Hill, Kansas. With a rare memory for the uncanny and telling little details that pull living scenes out of the past, Turnbull created a particularly appealing bit of nostalgic writing that led to scores of stories appearing the the newspaper. This is a book with special meaning for those who have shared similar experiences in small towns everywhere. But it's also of significance to a younger generation that remembers nothing before the hard-surface highways. For anyone, it's a means of visiting Home Town, USA, as it existed near the end of one of the most secure eras in American history. With artist Joseph Bohler capturing on canvas, what Turnbull so vividly depicts in words, MORE MAPLE HILL STORIES becomes an old friend of days gone by.