When psychology professor Redmond McClain joins the Ravenslake University faculty in Pleasanton, Ohio, he and artist wife Jennifer enjoy the historic town, thrilling athletic and cultural events, and interesting new friends.

Friends Eve Gundersen and Giselle Johannsen tell them of their depressed former classmate, Horace Gilmer, who at the age of 34, shot himself. Jen finds a deep poignancy in the story of Horace.

This booklet is the final endeavor of the Oxford Bicentennial Planning Committee to develop activities recognizing the City's 200th anniversary in 2010.

Transcribed correspondence and photographic materials of William W. Osborn, written to his wife, Jenny, beginning in Vicksburg, Miss., and ending in Washington, D.C.