About This Book
Maggie and Cornell Atkins discover a packet of humorous and often unflattering stories about the residents of Sloville in the lining of a battered steamer trunk as they prepare the item for sale at Ye Olde Antiques & Junk Shoppe. An embarrassing story about Mayor Terwilliger J. Perkins, previous owner of the trunk, leads Maggie and Cornell to conclude the mayor had hidden the papers prepared by Professor Basil C. DeMilde. Before his untimely death, the professor expected to present Sloville's history at the village's corrected sesquicentennial anniversary, improperly celebrated several years earlier. But as readers accompany Maggie and Cornell's progress through the stories, they will conclude that other down-right stupid residents surely wished the material to be forever lost in the northern reaches of Canada, just as the mayor had hoped. Join Maggie and Cornell as they read and follow the trials of Beth Daggett and the foibles of Floyd, her husband. Beth finally learns Floyd's distant relationship to the dim-witted Voitack clan and her worries over their future charge to the forefront. In the meantime, Pastor Kotter faces his own problems with the Voitacks and tries to remember his vows as a pastor. This third volume in the series introduces Caleb Whiteside's conflict with the medical profession and his long-standing feud with Doc Perkins, mayor of Sloville. After leaving Caleb, his ex-wife returns to Sloville and faces the remnants of a long ago short romance with the town barber. Each chapter, while referencing to various families in Sloville, stands on its own and lends to easy, sporadic reading. Above all, enjoy and laugh as each drama grows to its hilarious conclusion.
