The title for Finding the Light proceeded out of the need to have a title that fit with the first book, but still did a good job of representing the focus of the second book. Of course, the song that comes up repeatedly in Finding the Light is Don Henley’s Boys of Summer:
And the super 1980s playlist of music I listened to for help remembering:
Here is the documentation for Finding the Light:
Original 1981 Police Report (Will Open in New Window)
The Original 1985 Composite Drawing:
Finding The Light Character Photos
Laura Mae Malloy’s Case Court Records:
Laura Mae Malloy – Newspaper Articles
1930s Characters – Documentation
Leechburg – has been rehabilitated after the depressed economic times of the 1980s. Very cute town now, with river access and rail trails.
Harwick Mine and Cheswick & Harmar Railroad – It is now part of the Rachel Carson trail, and you can legally hike it!
Also, there is a great series of Youtube videos about the site by Frank Festa:
This is the railroad line that we walked down in Chapter 16.