The House At Brushneck Cove

“The House At Brushneck Cove” is based on fact combined with fiction. It is a story of mystery, deceit, forbidden love and unintentional murder climaxing in a natural disaster. Why was the old Victorian house boarded up and abandoned? What caused two spinster sisters to become semi-reclusive? What secret did they hide behind the walls of the old house? Why were the two sisters digging a grave-like hole in the root cellar? What did the firemen discover in the old unused water closet?

One sister is strong while the other is vulnerable to the attentions from a man of a race not like her own. Why did the stronger sister vow to shut all men out of her life forever?

A veteran of WW II, recipient of two medals Roland A. Hammond started writing for the camp newspaper while serving with the Army. A graduate of Pasadena College where he majored in business administration and advanced english was an asset. Other than that he is basically self-taught. He read the dictionary like a novel to gain a broader vocabulary.

He acted over radio station WPRO in the late 30's in half-hour plays specializing in dialect roles, the accents he learned he injected into sections of this novel.

He is the author of a book of poetry "Thoughtdrifts", three childrens stories, numerous articles for the Providence Journal and Sunday Journal, Yankee Magazine "The Caul" and second monetary prize winner for his poem "The Soul's Journeying".