Our daughter, Annie, was born exactly two weeks after moving into the house. Although my strange attraction to our new home never faded and questions remained unanswered, I pushed them aside and threw myself into my new role as mother. An engaging and guileless little girl, Annie had inherited equal parts from each parent. She had bright green eyes and an odd crescent-shaped birthmark on the inside of her forearm from her mother, and fair hair and perfectly shaped ears from her father. But her little personality was all her own. She was everything I could have wanted in a child. Rowan added: “I have been in several of Dorchester’s community plays with my family and they have changed our lives. DCPA launched Spinning the Moon, Dorchester's record-breaking seventh community play – no other town has achieved this many – in October 2019 with a public play reading, workshops and casting.

In "Whispers of Goodbye", a devastated widow and grieving mother, left alone and destitute by the Civil War, receives an urgent letter from her sister, who she hasn't seen in years. Elizabeth begs Cat to rush to her aid, telling her she is very afraid. Cat heads to her grandmother's old home in the swamps, where her sister is nowhere to be found. Who can she trust, and can she trust her heart to learn to let love in again? Or will she, in her desperation to protect herself, make things worse? It's first was Entertaining Strangers, written by award-winning playwright David Edgar and directed by Ann Jellicoe, the founder of the community theatre genre. Twice a month, when the Earth, Sun, and Moon line up, their gravitational power combines to make exceptionally high tides where the bulges occur, called spring tides, as well as very low tides where the water has been displaced. About a week later, when the Sun and Moon are at right angles to each other, the Sun’s gravitational pull works against the Moon’s gravitational tug and partially cancels it out, creating the moderate tides called neap tides.The northern hemisphere continues to tilt more and more towards the Sun, until the longest summer days in June. While the Earth is spinning to give us day and night, it is also moving around the Sun. This movement is called an orbit.

Time and again, New York Times bestselling author Karen White has proven herself to be the “ultimate voice of women’s fiction.”*I finished snapping up the bottom of Annie’s one-piece outfit and lifted her. “Oh, Michael-I thought it would be so much fun with the three of us. My dad used to take me when I was her age, and I remember watching the sky with him. It’s such a magical thing.” In Scotland we experience winter at the beginning of the year. Six months later the Earth hastravelled halfway around its orbit. The southern hemisphere is now tilted away from the Sun so it is winter.At the same time it is summer in the northern hemisphere because it is now tilted more towards the Sun. DCPA chair Rowan Seymouth said: “A lot of hard work has gone into getting us this far and we can’t thank everyone enough, especially all the local firms and supporters who have given us such wonderful support, financially and in other ways. However, it is Earth that sets the speed of the moon's rotation. The moon completes one revolution in about 27 days — nearly the same time it takes for the moon to orbit Earth: 27.32 days. As a result, people on Earth only ever see one side of the moon. If a moon day were any longer or shorter, we would be able to see all of the moon's surface as the moon orbited Earth. Whispers of Goodbye was a bit more serious. It took place in Reconstruction Louisiana and didn’t have any supernatural plots like the first book did. This one was mostly a gothic romance with a bit of a whodunnit. It gave me strong Rebecca vibes which I appreciated. The slowness of the pace, I didn’t appreciate as much. It just felt like nothing was happening for most of the book and lots of repetition. Then the ending was extremely abrupt. I will say that there were aspects of the mystery that I did not guess and that impressed me.

Karen’s latest novel, Dreams of Falling, was published in June, 2018 by Berkley Publishing, a division of Penguin Random House Publishing Group.This book compiles two of the author's earliest works, otherwise out of print in their original editions. I sighed, enjoying the caress of goose bumps as they traveled down my spine. “Michael, not here. Someone might see.” I made no move to step away. Entertaining Strangers went on to be performed at the National Theatre with Dame Judi Dench and Tim Pigott-Smith playing key roles. At this point in the orbit, the Earth’s tilt means that the southern hemisphere is facing more towards the Sun. This means that the light and heat from the Sun is more direct and stronger. The days are the longest in the year and the nights, the shortest. This is summer in the southern hemisphere.

Now, you can revisit the beginning of her signature style in two of her earliest novels—completely revised and together in one volume for the first time. Annie was only twenty-three months old when we took her to see her first comet atop Moon Mountain. Sky watching was a hobby of mine, introduced to me as a child by my Cherokee grandmother, and I was eager to share it with my daughter. Genetti’s Comet would be sharing the sky with a total lunar eclipse-a rare enough event to warrant mention of it in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Moon Mountain wasn’t really a mountain, but rather a largish hill and the perfect vantage point for celestial happenings. According to my grandmother, who was widely known for her eccentricities, it was a place with strong unknown powers. She called it a sacred place to the Cherokee Indians, who had inhabited this part of the country for centuries.

Moon in Motion: Phases, Patterns, and More

Summer is when the northern hemisphere is tilted towards the Sun - this gives us longer days and means the Sun's rays are more direct, stronger and warmer. Rowan Seymour of DCPA said: "It has taken a lot of hard work to get us where we are today, keeping momentum going through the pandemic and raising the funds to ensure that Spinning the Moon can finally go ahead. But this is what Dorchester does! Different phases of the moon, photographed through a telescope. (Image credit: Yaorusheng via Getty Images) Reading Karen White’s first two novels I was hooked by the time-travel theme of the first novel, In the Shadow of the Moon, and the Gothic overtones of the second novel, Whisper of Goodbye. The settings are the American Civil War and the Reconstruction of Louisiana which, of course, took place after the end of the Civil War, respectively. The author devised some differing aspects of time-travel that I had not seen before such as the ‘Shadow Warriors’. I truly enjoyed the Native American influences found in the first novel through the character of Zeke Proundfoot. As both novels take place in the South, the reader definitely experiences the deprivation of the South by the North. The second novel has a sister who has lost everything and everybody whom she loved going to visit her older sister who had married a Yankee officer and lives on their granmother’s plantation. What Cat finds brings remembrances, some welcomed, but many not, but where is Elizabeth, her older sister?