. . "Piqua (Miami County, Ohio)" . . . . "\"Lucy's youngest son, Dee Ross, struggles in a new century with things his slave ancestors were never up against and yet-- some things never change. From Dee's unacknowledged heroic rescue during Loveland's horrific flood of 1913 to sweating in the Bradford rail yards in a 'sundown town' and meeting other slave descendants, the Randolph freedmen, in the Rossville settlement of Piqua. Dee must lay down new track on a line of his own but can he defeat the ever present 'double-consciousness and unreconciled strivings' within himself, in a twentieth century world?\"--P.[4] of cover." . . . . . . . "Fiction" . . "Refuge from the deluge : on being railroaded" . "History" . . . . . . "Ohio" . .