Return to Summers Run

<p>Those who know Pennsylvania explain runs as spring-fed streams coursing down the ravines and winding across the waiting meadows. Runs are claimed by boys welcomed by the beasts.</p><p>This is the story of one Summers Run a neighborhood where two families are linked by history marriage war and contemporary life. Narrated by Claude Kinkade at age twelve and from his perspective of twenty years later <i>Return to Summers Run</i> continues his journey begun in <i>Summers Run: An American Boyhood</i>. The fortunes of Shadeland his departed father's ancestral home loom large as the Kinkades face the economic realities of living on the land.</p><p>As a newly-minted farm boy Claude senses the shadow of his father following his. Then leaving crops and cows behind he samples life in Las Vegas where his mother deals with a new marriage and its expectations. Little League Baseball there proves disappointing but offers important lessons Claude exploits once he returns to P. A. Summers Run and the Pickett Township Panthers.</p><p>As the Panthers climb the pinnacle of their second season Claude and his teammates experience the magic of baseball plus the mysteries of life and loss surrounding them.</p>