Independence: Dancing with Time

An effort to sustain the fifty-year tradition of a Staffordshire block party on July 4th faces the challenges of old cultural values, changing demographics, modern technology, and new national standards of conduct. The eccentric locals confound out-of-state newcomers as individuals and groups vie to define a community future.
Book 2 of the Persimmon River Novel Series. Staffordshire, a village of 2000 nestled on an inland bay formed by a North Carolina river, is declining; yet, individuals are drawn together-instinctively? mysteriously? magically?-to rebuild a community and a tradition.