{"id":2,"date":"2008-01-16T11:12:48","date_gmt":"2008-01-16T16:12:48","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-06-19T11:14:39","modified_gmt":"2009-06-19T16:14:39","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.patmestern.com\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hello there!
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Welcome to patmestern.com. Thank you for dropping in. I hope that you will find the information on this site both interesting and entertaining.
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EXCITING NEWS!<\/font><\/h1>\n

My sixth work of fiction is GRANITE, ISBN #978-1-55002-843-0,
\nPublisher: The Dundurn Group. To reserve a\u00a0 copy, personalized by the author and sent to your home, please check out the Bookshop on www.patmestern.com<\/a> or the Bookshop on www.mestern.net<\/a>
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 In GRANITE, I have captured the essence and spirit of rural Ontario through the characters that inhabited its farms, villages and towns during the mid-twentieth century.
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Settings include –\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The beautiful Hills of Mulmur in Dufferin
\nCounty in Southern Ontario interspersed with scenes in Fergus, Hornings Mills, Creemore, Midland, Collingwood and Elmvale.
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The plot:\u00a0 In June 1962, Lish MacPherson, leaves Toronto with several boxes of pirated files and a jar of earth which label contains place-names that seemed important to her father. Lish\u2019s quest for information about her parents leads to Seven Springs and Thalia Logan Russo\u2019
\ns property, Hunter\u2019s Mark, where she feels compelled to assist the eccentric elderly woman to save her ancestral lands on the Niagara Escarpment from development.
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Lish is quickly introduced to the rural characters who inhabit the Springs and Valley – Charlie Barnes, Noah Curlew, store & caf\u00e9 owner Georgie, Jeff the mechanic and Len his father, the Delaney brothers, Bud, Glenn and Reginald Russo. However tenuous his hold on Hunter\u2019s Mark, land developer, Reginald is determined to get his hands on Thalia\u2019s property. The story involves murder – both ancient and possibly more recent, deception, deceit, blackmail, love of land, love of life and the tenacity of people to fight for what they believe in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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