This collection by Portsmouth's Poet Laureate includes "Sonny's Back," the story of a Vietnam Vet returning home to Old Town, as well as ballads on Henry David Thoreau of Concord, the celebrated Boorn brothers of Manchester, Vermont (they confessed to a murder they never committed), and of Portsmouth's Gerald McLees who survived the sinking of the submarine Squalus in 1939. Each ballad is prefaced with explanatory text and accompanied by a Peter Randall photograph. The book contains a CD of John singing all the ballads and songs.
- ISBN10 1931807183
- ISBN13 9781931807180
- Publish Date 28 February 2004
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint University Press of New England
- Edition Audio CD. ed.
- Pages 96
- Language English