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This moving coming-of-age narrative transports the reader to a quiet way of life, lost and gone forever. Betrayal, tragedy and perseverance lay in store for John Joe Baxter, growing up in Ireland during the 1940s and 50s. When his widowed mother dies in 1947, a conniving uncle tears the family apart, sending John Joe's two older sisters to a convent and the remaining four children to live with different distant relative, but optimistic young John Joe longs to return to his family farm to work the fields on the beautiful mountains of Munlough.

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John Baxter was a publisher of a community newspaper, The Rockaway Press, from 1984 to 1991. He is a certified public access television producer and produced weekly programs in Queens, Brooklyn, and Manhattan 1992 to 2008. He is also professional musician and singer - songwriter who composes music, especially traditional Irish music. He remains deeply engaged on social media, where every weekend his live music show unfolds drawing people over the world.

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