TY - SER KW - Pennsylvania Railroad KW - Scots-Irish Americans KW - Presbyterians KW - immigrants KW - judges KW - Irish Americans KW - farms KW - Scottish Americans KW - coal industry AU - Agnes Sligh Turnbull AB - A saga of three generations of Scottish-American Presbyterians. After the Civil War, Daniel and Sarah McDowell, the first generation, beget 12 children. Daniel is a dour Calvinistic husband; Sarah is bitter about her repeated pregnancies. Their son David moves to Pittsburgh, where he becomes a judge. Daughter Jeannie marries a local schoolteacher. Her daughter Connie is the protagonist of the book's third section and she too remains in the Westmoreland County Scottish Presbyterian community. The novel dramatizes change in Western Pennsylvania: how the strict Calvinism of the Scottish immigrants weakens; the shifting roles of wives and husbands; and how industrial development shrinks the land and rural life. C1 - 1850s-1910 C3 - Allegheny County; Pittsburgh; Downtown; Union Station; Nixon Theater; East Liberty; Pittsburgh Theological Seminary; Indiana County; Blairsville; Young Twp.; Somerset County; Confluence; Westmoreland County; Loyalhanna Creek; Greensburg; Greensburg High S C4 - Saga; Literary; Christian; Historical CY - New York LA - English M3 - Novel N1 -

Union Station is referred to as Penn Station, as it is often known. Greensburg-Salem Middle School is referred to as Greensburg High School, as it was then known.

N2 - A saga of three generations of Scottish-American Presbyterians. After the Civil War, Daniel and Sarah McDowell, the first generation, beget 12 children. Daniel is a dour Calvinistic husband; Sarah is bitter about her repeated pregnancies. Their son David moves to Pittsburgh, where he becomes a judge. Daughter Jeannie marries a local schoolteacher. Her daughter Connie is the protagonist of the book's third section and she too remains in the Westmoreland County Scottish Presbyterian community. The novel dramatizes change in Western Pennsylvania: how the strict Calvinism of the Scottish immigrants weakens; the shifting roles of wives and husbands; and how industrial development shrinks the land and rural life. PB - The Macmillan Company PP - New York PY - 1936 RN - The author was born Agnes Sligh (1888-1982) in New Alexandria, Westmoreland County to a Scottish immigrant and his Scottish-American wife. She attended the village school and in 1910 graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Indiana Normal School. She taught high school until 1918 when she married an Englishman, James Lyall Turnbull. The couple left Western Pennsylvania in 1922 for Maplewood, New Jersey, where Agnes lived for 60 years as a fiction writer. She is buried in New Alexandria. EP - 436 p. TI - The Rolling Years ER -