HIGH GREEN
by Herb Cleaves
by Herb Cleaves
High Green focuses on a young locomotive engineer who is seriously wounded while serving during the Korean War and despairs of returning to the only job he ever wanted, and one he mastered while in high school. The novel is set in Maine where, in 1951, trains still played major roles in the transportation of people and goods between the rural backcountry and the population centers of the northeastern United States.
High Green traces John Shanahan’s return to the only job he ever wanted, his blossoming love for Jenny, and his realization that he must expand his horizons beyond those of a locomotive engineer. |
Herb Cleaves is the son of railroad employees and worked his way through college and beyond as a trackman and station agent-operator. He published a railroad history titled Bangor and Aroostook: The Maine Railroad (Flying Yankee Publications, 1986). An updated sequel was produced a few years ago.
He became a reporter for a Maine daily newspaper where he also served as a bureau chief and copy and layout editor during a 25-year career. Herb has written numerous articles for various magazines and has been associated with a weekly newspaper on the coast of Maine for 16 years where he recently wrote a weekly column. |
