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Back in the 1950s, Lumby had a brief moment of fame when renowned artist Dana Porter made two of its picturesque barns the subject of his greatest painting. In Stealing Lumby, the town is jolted from its comfortable obscurity once again when the famous painting disappears and the national media comes a-calling in an effort to solve the mystery. Things go from bad to worse when one of the barns itself goes missing; some see dollar signs in all the attention but others just want to get things back to the way they've always been. There is, after all, the Summer Solstice Moo Doo Iditarod to plan for. All of Lumby's quirkiness comes alive again in this delightful sequel to The Lumby Lines. Faithful readers will recognize old friends, enjoy meeting new ones, and relish all the antics as the story unfolds-as pieces of the stolen barn show up in the strangest of places, a schooner goes sailing down Main Street, and the famous artist considers recreating his masterpiece in a way that amazes all.
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About the artist, Dana Porter:
"Most say Dana Porter was destined to become, even at a young age, our country's finest landscape artist, a description he neither embraced nor rejected during his long and successful career. He simply painted and was too involved in that personal mission to see the frenzy that surrounded his masterpieces. Also from a young age, Dana was a person who seldom found solace in human companionship but instead turned inward and found comfort in his own extraordinary talent. On very rare occasions he would allow someone into his life, but even then they found themselves swimming by the shores of his vast lake, never venturing into the deeper waters where he always stayed." - excerpt from Stealing Lumby
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About the theft of The Barns of Lumby
"At the time the museum was notified that The Barns of Lumby had failed to appear in London the residents of Lumby were asleep, unaware that they would refer to themselves by the end of the day as "a herd of deer caught in a tractor's headlights." With no control over the situation, Lumby's forty-six hundred townsfolk were about to meet the global media, and through that media, a harsh world that the good people of Lumby normally kept at arm's length." - excerpt from Stealing Lumby
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Author autographed and personalized copies of the Lumby novels can be purchased at Lazygoose USA, Inc., which offers other cool Lumby merchandise.
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