The Travelers: Present In The Past

A novel by Elaine Schmidt
One touch of an antique quilt and Nona McDonald's life is changed forever. The haunting dreams she has been having for weeks - of horses and buggies and World War II factories - now make sense. Nona can travel through time, just as many in her family have for generations.
When several historical artifacts go missing from the secretive society of time travelers, it appears Nona's family has been set up to take the blame. While Nona's family investigates, they hide Nona with her ancestors in 1898 Kansas, a time when the antique quilt was newly sewn and its maker, Winnie Longenecker, was Nona's age.
Nona and Winnie become friends as Nona begins to adjust to life in the late 1890s. But a time traveler's life is never simple. A terrified, young Henry Sanchez drops out of time into their world. When the troubles from Nona's own time come looking for her, the three new friends go running through time.
They flee to 1890s New York City, landing in the candy shop where the Tootsie Roll has just been invented and hide in the ghostly cliff dwellings of what will one day become Colorado's Mesa Verde National Park. Along the way, the trio learns to fend for themselves and understand their time travel abilities.
But the big question is, will they ever make it back to their own homes and times?


Published by Kansas City Star Books; 140 pages