What happens if the actual government that is declared to assure its citizens' rights to own acreage takes their land? For the Cole Family of Neville Island, the U.S. Government's action of eminent area devastated three generations.
Belmont, ME -- The Coles of Neville Island were affluent landowners until the United States acclimated eminent area to reclaim their property. Jean Boggio recounts this accurate adventure of hatred, bitterness, ambition, greed, and incest in her able award-winning account "Stolen Fields: A Story of Eminent Domain and the Death of the American Dream" (ISBN 9780979933042, Colerith Press, 2008).
While angry World War I in 1918, the United States Government absitively to body a ammunition bulb to battling the German Krupps Works. The area would be Neville Island, home to the affluent Cole ancestors for over a century. Due to the government's eminent area policy, the acreage was purchased for a allowance of its value. When the war concluded afore the bulb was built, the Coles could not buy their acreage aback abreast but had to bid for it at accessible auction, alone to be outbid by Carnegie Steel.
How could the United States government amusement its own citizens so unfairly, and how did this accident affect the Cole family? Jean Boggio, Cole ancestors descendant, tells her family's adventure in "Stolen Fields." The ancestors had amusing position as the Coles of Neville Island, but the accident of their acreage affected them to alpha over again.
The Cole ancestors associates are the story's center. The ancestors matriarch, an aged woman outbid at the auction, spends the blow of her activity staring out the window of the new farm. Uncle Bob is bent to accretion abounding buying of the family's new property. Meanwhile a adolescent bearing springs up. They are aloft on tales of the family's misfortune, which influences their own futures. Some go off to college, others are victims of incest, and some about-face their backs on religion.
"Stolen Fields" is accounting with a novelist's talent. Boggio depicts her ancestors with blush and nostalgia. She explores both abandon of eminent area while application her pride in accepting an American, and she demonstrates that humans have to accept their reactions to abrogating situations. The clairvoyant of "Stolen Fields" becomes accomplished about the U.S. Government, twentieth aeon life, and what it agency to be a family.
About the Author
Jean Boggio has been autograph throughout her life. She holds assorted degrees in education, drama, and nursing. Her assorted careers accept included teaching elementary school, piano from her home, nursing administration and psychiatric nursing. She lives in Maine with her six cats. Currently, she is autograph about the Cole Family's continued abode on Neville Island and her own activity as a complete individual woman.
Stolen Fields: A Story of Eminent Domain and the Death of the American Dream" (ISBN 9780979933042, Colerith Press, 2008) can be purchased through bounded and online bookstores. For added information, appointment www.jeanboggio.com. Publicity contact: www.ReaderViews.com. Review copies accessible aloft request.
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