<p>When Conrad Kerr, prestigious Columbus Lawyer, sees the obituary of childhood friend, college roommate and draft dodger, Deacon Thomas, in the Columbus Dispatch, he begins a geographical and emotional journey introducing him to a people and landscape that will ultimately transform his predictable, upper class life.</p> <p>This book is set in the mid-1990s, primarily in Morgan County, Ohio. The discovery of Deacon's remains in southern Colorado, and subsequent burial brings together a group of high school friends, Morgan County relatives and other assorted locals.</p> <p>The group gathered in Chesterhill perform a post-mortem of sorts on the extant detritus of Deacon Thomas's brief life contained in a box Connie has held for twenty-five years.</p> <p>They discover his writings for English Seminars, the only academic work produced during three quarters at OSU.</p> <p>They listen to Deacon's stories, tales told by his relatives and visit sites--Big Bottom Massacre, Hook's grave and Morgan's Raid Farm.</p> <p> </p>