Description
"Rescued By Penguins, And Other Tales from Newman's Corner" is comprised of field notes from life in a quintessential New England town, one that still likes to believe it retains vestiges of being a "village." The town's name, Newman's Corner, is intended to echo the name that Thornton Wilder gave Grover's Corner in his play, "Our Town." Some of the things that are depicted were things that were loosely based on fictionalized personal experience or observation and the others were told to me by other fictional "village" residents. I've set them down here partly as a reminder to myself of the wisdom of that great Episcopal hymn: "Time, like an ever rolling stream, bears all our years away, / They fly, forgotten, as a dream dies at the opening day."