![]() ![]() ![]() I am quarantined all alone on the Island of the Odd. I’m fourteen years old and infected for good. Weird is a disease and once you have it you have it. Soon after, the occupants of the town find out about the upcoming plans for building a dam, and that everyone within a certain distance from the river will have to move.Īs if Ruby’s life wasn’t already hard enough with her eccentric younger brother and her best friend moved away, she is now being ridiculed about her accident at the river and is more of an outcast than ever. The Town That Drowned tells this story. It is 1965, and 14-year-old Ruby has a vision of the whole town underwater after she falls and hits her head at a skating party. It had never occurred to me before to wonder about the origins of the dam, or what it was like in the area before and during the construction of it. Mactaquac is the site of a big dam that is built across the St. Last summer our family went on a camping trip to Mactaquac Provincial Park in New Brunswick. ![]()
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