A new book from the imagination of Carol Estella Brown

Here’s another wonderful tale from the imagination of Carol Estella Brown, Penwoman.

Welcome to Digby

a family, a town, a heritage

You might not have heard about the town of Digby, New Hampshire. It was once a prosperous mill town at the north end of the state, “the farthest north you can go without speaking French,” according to William Henry Digby, the grandson of the town’s founder.

Welcome to Digby, is Marjorie Anne Digby Cooke’s story to tell. She holds the honored positions of Mayor, Postmistress and Digby School Superintendent, and is the oldest surviving member of the Digby family. Marjorie was born and lived her entire life there, well, her first 100 years, anyway. The residents, past and present, of Digby still live in her memory, although the town is mostly gone by the mid-1960’s and, at a time when the rest of the country is looking at the beginning of another war, and Digby’s residents are slowly leaving, Marjorie is more concerned with what is happening in her family.

Marjorie shows us the town and her family in the wealth of photographs she’s accumulated over the years and through the annual letter that she writes to the current President of the United States. Marjorie’s great-grandmother, Clara, was an Abenaki woman banished from her people for marrying a white man, Zekiel Digby and there is a cloud over Digby and Marjorie’s family that has been there since Clara endowed her female descendants with powers beyond their capabilities and a mysterious journal beyond their understanding. Marjorie’s daughter, named for her Abenaki ancestor, has been haunted for years by this ‘gift’ and now it’s being unwittingly passed on to a teen who is nowhere near ready for it.

Even though this is a work of fiction, this book is dedicated to those indigenous people who founded our great nation and treated the land with the respect and love that the rest of the world has forgotten.

This book and other delightful tales by Carol Estella Brown are available for purchase at:

www.blurb.com/bookstore under Carol Estella Brown.