{"id":732,"date":"2020-12-04T21:04:51","date_gmt":"2020-12-04T21:04:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/samclarkdesign.com\/inlandsea\/?page_id=732"},"modified":"2020-12-08T16:35:57","modified_gmt":"2020-12-08T16:35:57","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/samclarkdesign.com\/inlandsea\/","title":{"rendered":"Home"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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About The Inland Sea<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

The Inland Sea is a mystery story, set in a sequestered part of Lake Champlain known as the Inland Sea.  <\/span>It\u2019s about people, families, who have spent their life there.  <\/span>A successful young minister, Paul Brearley, part owner of Osprey Island, has spent all of his summers there, seemingly a handsome, athletic, happy person with a beautiful wife and son. But in 1990, he disappears, and is presumed drowned, though some people have their doubts.<\/p>\n

In 2008, Brearley\u2019s body, not yet identified, is found in a campground on nearby Burton Island, shot dead, propped up against the wall of a lean-to, as if resting from a long walk. Who shot him? What has he been doing for 18 years?<\/p>\n

Fred Davis is the detective in charge. He grew up on a South Hero farm and knows the lake as well as anyone.  <\/span>As the investigation develops, Fred becomes fascinated with the little community on Osprey Island.  <\/span>He thinks the killing might be tied to Paul\u2019s disappearance. But he slowly learns that the origin goes back further, to a day in 1972,  <\/span>when Fred and a friend were sailing a little homemade boat just outside the Inland Sea, and a boy named Skip Tyler,  <\/span>driving his speedboat too fast, crashes into them, nearly sinking the little sailboat. Skip blithely drives off, unconcerned. This crash sets in motion seemingly small events, which lead to Paul\u2019s murder 36 years later.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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How the book came about.<\/b><\/p>

I grew up in Poughkeepsie in the Quaker Community there.\u00a0 Our family had a place on an island in Upper Saranac Lake, in the Adirondacks.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0We lost the place later, but\u00a0The Island<\/i>\u00a0still lives in much of what I build, and certainly in\u00a0The Inland Sea.<\/i><\/p>

I have always been interested in the history and people of New England, and the ideas that took root here.\u00a0\u00a0It\u2019s what I studied in school, and read about to this day.\u00a0\u00a0I have often attempted to write about this subject, and my own family\u2019s relationship to it, but with little success.\u00a0\u00a0I have a drawer full of memoirs, philosophical pieces, stories, and other manuscripts that don\u2019t quite work.\u00a0\u00a0But on November 4, 2008, the day Barack Obama was elected, I was hit by a car while biking, not far from my home in Plainfield, Vermont.\u00a0\u00a0I couldn\u2019t do any woodworking for a few months, but I could still type.\u00a0\u00a0I decided to approach this material again in the form of a mystery novel.<\/p>

During this period our family had a spot, with a boat, an old house-trailer and a dock in a a lakeside campground called Montani\u2019s,\u00a0\u00a0on the eastern side of South Hero, Vermont.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0This is the part of Lake Champlain\u00a0\u00a0known as The Inland Sea.\u00a0\u00a0I love the place and also the name. It seemed natural to locate my story there.<\/p>

It might seem absurd to jump from writing building books to writing a novel, but to me principles to live by, and principles to build by, aren\u2019t that different.\u00a0\u00a0You could argue that constructing a detective story isn\u2019t entirely different from constructing a build book, or a house.<\/p>

Cover Image for Web Site<\/strong><\/p>

This photo formed the point of departure for Susan Riley\u2019s cover painting for The Inland Sea.<\/i>\u00a0\u00a0 It\u2019s taken from (the late lamented) Montani\u2019s Campground on Keeler Bay, on the eastern side of South Hero, not far from the village of South Hero.\u00a0 It\u2019s sunrise, maybe as early as 5 am.\u00a0\u00a0 I saw this view many mornings from my trailer.\u00a0 This is the southern end of the Inland Sea.<\/span><\/p>

The boat is a smaller version of the boat which Fred Davis, the detective in\u00a0The Inland Sea<\/i>, buys toward the beginning of the story.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

I asked Susan to substitute this larger boat for the one in the photo, which wasn\u2019t as easy as it might sound.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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This photo is again the<\/span> smaller boat, on the Chambly Canal.\u00a0 This canal follows the non-navigable parts of the Richelieu River, which connects Lake Champlain to the St. Lawrence River.\u00a0 This canal comes into the story later in the book.<\/span><\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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About The Inland Sea The Inland Sea is a mystery story, set in a sequestered part of Lake Champlain known as the Inland Sea.  It\u2019s about people, families, who have spent their life there.  A successful young minister, Paul Brearley, part owner of Osprey Island, has spent all of his summers there, seemingly a handsome, athletic, happy… Read More »Home<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"elementor_header_footer","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"full-width","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"on","neve_meta_content_width":100,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-732","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/samclarkdesign.com\/inlandsea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/samclarkdesign.com\/inlandsea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/samclarkdesign.com\/inlandsea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samclarkdesign.com\/inlandsea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samclarkdesign.com\/inlandsea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=732"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/samclarkdesign.com\/inlandsea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/732\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":837,"href":"https:\/\/samclarkdesign.com\/inlandsea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/732\/revisions\/837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/samclarkdesign.com\/inlandsea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}