A Fair Wind Home

By: Ruth Moore

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Synopsis: This is the story of three men: Nathan Ellis, of Massachusetts, Francis Carnavon, of Cork, and Maynard Cantril, a shipbuilder of Somerset in the Province of Maine. The time of the story is the seventeen-hundreds before the Revolution, between any periods of war there may be. Wars are for historians, and this is not a work of history. In fact, an historian might find that liberties have been taken and that little attempt has been made to reproduce accessories of the period. Those who wish battles and massacres may imagine them as taking place when and where they did; but there were times when people worked and built, and this is the story of three men of peace who lived in one of those piping times. "New Somerset" was a precolonial name for the Northeast Province, and for the name Somerset, I have picked the brains of history; but this is all. The people, the names, the geography, the town of Somerset up the Crookshank River are fiction, and I doubt if there are, or ever were, any such swamps as "The Flowage" within ten miles of Boston.