STATUS

Heartwood is the working and hopeful title of Timothy’s first novel.

Still under construction, it was thoughtfully researched and outlined over many years.

PREVIEW

This fictitious story begins in the 1950s and is set in all three

geographic regions of North Carolina – its mountains, piedmont,

and coastal plain. The redbud tree, Cercis canadensis, in its

flowering red glory of spring and distinctive heart-shaped leaves

in summer turned golden in autumn, ties the beginning of the

novel to its surprise ending. A silk thread, so to speak.

A boy grows up on Cedrow Circle, a b-shaped subdivision, in the

company of good parents, happy siblings, and neighborhood

friends of interesting sorts. Fields, woods, and creeks border and

limit their range of childhood adventuring.

Boy becomes a young man and goes off to college with no

particular career in mind; he just wants to learn everything he can

about the natural sciences – especially trees. Young man meets

His mischievous tendencies and her unyielding spirituality initially

renders them inseparable. What then becomes of them?