The Years of the Locust

By: Loula Grace Erdman

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Synopsis: They each took a portion of their past, examining it, remembering Old Dade and the part he had played in their own lives, rolling things they had not thought of for years, stretching out all the bright tapestry of memory before them... for three days, time and memory were something they held in their hands. These were the people who had most to remember: Beulah Fulton Kenzie--the outsider from Illinois in whom the Kenzies could find no flaw, yet who married Mark with a sense of guilt. Allison Kenzie Ranyak--Dade’s granddaughter and “only child,” who defied small things and small souls with a stubborn, bright courage which carried her far from the farm. Barry Kenzie--Dade’s youngest son, to whom books, not the farm, were home. Mark Kenzie--Dade’s grandson, weakened and spoiled by Julia, loved by Beulah, and changed by her into the man who could almost fill Dade’s place. Julia Callaway Kenzie--faithful wife to Dade’s oldest son, Tom, a conscientious mother and dutiful daughter-in-law, whose feeling of inadequacy made her take refuge in sharp, veiled insults. Elaine Courtney Waring--a sort of cousin of Dade, who married Henry Waring rather than die an old maid and wandered through the routine of her days as though asleep. Miss Laura Meeks--who did her Christian duty for sixty years and always wondered what would have happened if Dade had kissed her. Virgie and Jim Meadors--to whom Dade meant luck and courage and escape from the Bottoms.