Posted by Ed Kiser on July 31, 2006 at 22:38:37 from 152.163.101.7 user Kisered.
In Reply to: Re: What the future held posted by John Lambert on July 31, 2006 at 18:50:46:
Prue Eckett has written an as yet unfinished follow up to the adventures of our friends. She timed it as being August of '39, just before the "Recent Unpleasantness" (not my words, Churchill's, when referring to the WWII period.) So there were ominous war clouds gathering. The persecution of the Jews (Krystalnacht) had already become unbelievable in the rest of the world. Everyone felt very uneasy as to what the future would hold.
In her story, Peggy had gone to Europe to help smuggle out children as their parents were taken away to places they would never get away from. These needed foster homes away from Germany. The Blackettes of Beckfoot wound up with three of these young girls.
Beckfoot becomes a reunion ground for the old crowd as if for their final get-together. Bridget is now around the age her older siblings were when we first met them, and becomes a good friend to these refugee children. These three with Bridget being the fourth call themselves "The Nomads" as a reflection of that they had lost their home in Europe.
Nancy and Timothy were by now married, and parents of a pair of very young twins, so her adventuresome nature has definitely been curtailed around the care of these two youngsters. It is Peggy that has ventured out, endured the risks and did the smuggling of these refugees, so she has matured considerably and has "come into her own."
This is just the background of her story. It was very fascinating to read her offering, even as it was unfinished, and was delighted when she offered to have me stick in a chapter or two for consideration for inclusion.
Of course, with copyrights being what they are, such a story will never reach publication, but it still was fun both to read what she had done, and to add my two cent's worth to the collection.
I keep hoping one day Prue will manage to put this thing together in a more completed form and some how get it accessable to the rest of us Ransome fans. But of course, that is still a considerable piece of work and effort to finalize, with no hope of having a true product at the end that can ever have any value, so the motivation to work on such gets a bit low, as I can well understand.
Thanks, Prue, for sharing "SnAatWar" with me. Don't give up on it yet.
Ed Kiser, Kentucky