DAHDITTER

by Joseph Roy Sheppherd

This third story is about a group of talented children and their efforts to dramatically portray historical events like Samuel Morse’s First Telegraphed Message and the Declaration of the Báb in 1844, The Death of President Zachary Taylor and the Martyrdom of the Báb in 1850. The story explores several wide-ranging and intertwined adolescent the process of choosing a career, childhood friendships and marital love, the acknowledgment of family heritage, personal initiative and unforeseen consequences, the value of reminiscing about the past, and of course telegraphy and children's coded languages. The Dahditter is a work of blended fact and fiction, which combines historic events and fictitious social settings.

15 pages, Kindle Edition

Published February 26, 2012