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    The Lons
    The Lons
    The Lons
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    The Lons

    By Peggy Rambach

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    Strange things are growing in Leonard Slinket's watermelon field. They are as light and small as Wiffle balls, turn smooth and warm, dark, yet luminous, and their vines beat with a pulse. So begins The Lons - short for watermelons - as Slinket, his younger carpenter-friend, John Bigby, and science teacher, Lydia Rice, set out to discover why the lons are here, and what it is that they want ...

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherThe Paper Journey Press
    Release dateNov 11, 2013
    ISBN9780982474150
    The Lons
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    Peggy Rambach

    Author, Peggy Rambach, runs creative writing workshops in community education settings for the Healing Arts in health care, correctional facilities, ESL programs and immigrant support centers as well as offering assistance with lesson plans in professional development presentations for middle and high school teachers. She teaches memoir writing in medical schools as part of the curriculum in Narrative Medicine and Medical Humanities. Ms. Rambach is conveniently located for teachers, students and participants from throughout New England including the Vermont (VT) cities of Bennington, Burlington and Montpelier, the Maine (ME) cities of Portland, Gardener, Kennebunkport and York, the New Hampshire (NH) cities of Portsmouth, Concord, Manchester, Dover, Nashua and Rochester, the Massachusetts (MA) cities of Boston, Newburyport, Amherst, North Hampton, Salem, Beverly, Lawrence, Lowell, Haverhill, Gloucester, Plymouth, New Bedford, Manchester-by-the-Sea, Marblehead, Rockport, Hyannis, and Falmouth, the Rhode Island (RI) cities of Providence and Newport and the Connecticut (CT) cities of New Haven and Hartford.

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