Mason & Dixon

Description:

Told from the focal point of one Rev. Wicks Cherrycoke – a clergyman of dubious orthodoxy – who attempts to entertain and divert his extended family on a cold December evening (partly for amusement, and partly to keep his coveted status as a guest in the house). Claiming to have accompanied Mason and Dixon throughout their journeys, Cherrycoke tells a tale intermingling Mason and Dixon's biographies with history, fantasy, legend, speculation, and outright fabrication.

subjects: Fiction,  Surveyors,  Frontier and pioneer life,  Surveying,  History,  British,  American fiction (fictional works by one author),  Fiction, historical,  Pennsylvania, fiction,  Maryland, fiction,  Fiction, historical, general,  Géomètres,  Romans,  Belletristische Darstellung,  Historical fiction,  Vie des pionniers,  Long Now Manual for Civilization

People: Charles Mason (1728-1786),  Jeremiah Dixon,  Charles Mason (1730-1787),  Jeremiah Dixon (1733-1779),  Charles (Geodät) Mason,  Jérémiah Dixon

Places: United States,  Pennsylvania,  Maryland,  États-Unis,  Etats-Unis

Times: Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775,  18e siècle,  1600-1775 (Période coloniale)