The Sherwood Ring

The Sherwood Ring by Elizabeth Marie Pope, 1958. When Peggy Grahame’s father dies, she goes to live with her Uncle Enos in upstate New York, at their ancestral home, which goes by the whimsical name Rest-and-Be-Thankful. The family has lived there since the family arrived in America, fleeing their old home in Scotland after their support for Bonnie Prince Charlie failed. Uncle Enos loves history and tends to live in the past of their old home. Peggy’s father has sarcasticallysaid that Uncle Enos keeps “a pack of ghosts” at the old home and dedicates his life to making them feel comfortable by never changing anything there. Although, before he dies, he admits that the place is actually haunted, after a fashion, although neither he nor Enos has ever seen the ghosts themselves. Knowing that he is about to die, he sends word to Enos that Peggy is coming, and he says that Peggy will understand whathe means about the ghosts when she gets there. He also says that Peggy will largely be…