It's 1914, and the Lyle family, like the United States itself, is at a crossroads. Malcolm Lyle, all too aware that he is no engineering genius like his father who founded the company, has made the Keystone...

In the working class dialect of Western Pennsylvania around Pittsburgh, the phrase redd up means to put in order, to tidy or make neat, such as after dinner we helped redd up the table. In the stories...

There's been a murder in Furnass—or has there? The death under suspicious circumstances of prominent real estate developer Dickie Sutcliff leads the Reverend Bryce Orr to play detective. Ignoring contradictory...

In the summer of 1863, Judson Walker, a captain of Morgan's Raiders, and Jonathan Reid, a young engineer, come to Furnass to appropriate two of Colin Lyles' steam-powered road engines. The purpose is...

The stories of Holding On show life in Furnass during the prosperous late 1970s and early 1980s, though there are rumors of mill closings and layoffs. Interwoven is a tale of two Scottish soldiers two...

The Building, the first book of the Furnass Towers Trilogy, is the story of the well-intentioned but ill-conceived attempt to construct a high-rise building in the middle of a stricken mill town, and...

The Furnass Towers project has gone belly-up, and realtor Dickie Sutcliff is picking up the pieces along with setting up housekeeping with his younger lover and the return of his prodigal brother, Harry...

A BOOK OF DAYS is the story of a book, The Journal of Thomas Keating—the days when it was written, and the subsequent days when it changed the lives of those who touched it. We first see the book as a...

Many home cooks—and professionals, as well—swear by the tried-and-true implements they’ve used for years: the Foley Food Mill that works like a charm every time; the manually operated juicer that’s a...

FURROW AND SLICE is a book of short short stories and attending photographs—some of the stories standing on their own, others as chapters of longer works—that portrays the world beyond the valley's hills...