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100 1 _aCatherwood, Mary Hartwell,
_d1847-1902
245 1 0 _aRocky Fork
250 _aNew edition
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2025
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
500 _aRelease date is 2025-10-05
508 _aDavid E. Brown, Mary Fahnestock-Thomas, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
520 _a"Rocky Fork" by Mary Hartwell Catherwood is a novel written in the late 19th century. Set among the hills and hollows of central Ohio, it follows spirited Melissa “Bluebell” Garde as she navigates schooldays, community customs, and the dangers and delights of a rural settlement with her little sister Rocco, their physician father, and visiting Aunt Melissa. Expect tender domestic moments, lively classroom scenes, industrial backdrops, and occasional frontier hazards, all filtered through a child’s keen eye. The opening of the novel follows Bluebell on her path to the log schoolhouse under kindly Mr. Pitzer, where a polished outsider, Mr. Runnels, sweeps in to launch a “geography school” with map-chanting that captivates the district. After a noon of trading treats and games, Bluebell rides with her father to the chapel meeting; the night turns urgent when a furnace worker is injured, and the pair brave the perilous Narrows on their sure-footed mare, Ballie. Next day a refined relative, Miss Melissa Calder, arrives with gifts (including a wax doll that briefly stirs Rocco’s jealousy), then visits the school, offers remarks, and joins the girls’ swing at noon. The section closes on a simmering quarrel over a prized thumb-paper and a heated spelling match as a storm gathers, sketching the community’s rhythms, childhood rivalries, and the mix of learning and danger that shape Bluebell’s world. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cBoston: Lothrop, Lee & Shepard, 1911
653 _aConduct of life -- Juvenile fiction
653 _aChildren -- Conduct of life -- Juvenile fiction
653 _aFriendship -- Juvenile fiction
653 _aFamily -- Juvenile fiction
653 _aCountry life -- Juvenile fiction
653 _aStudents -- Juvenile fiction
653 _aFathers and daughters -- Juvenile fiction
653 _aHomesickness -- Juvenile fiction
653 _aOhio -- Social life and customs -- Juvenile fiction
700 1 _aMerrill, Frank T.,
_d1848-1923
856 4 _uhttps://archive.org/details/rockyfork00cath/page/n7/mode/2up
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76984
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