Mosher, Howard Frank. On Kingdom Mountain.(Brief article)(Book review)

Mosher, Howard Frank. On Kingdom Mountain. Houghton. Jul. 2007. c.288p. ISBN 978-0-618-19723-1. $24. F

Award-winning writer Mosher (A Stranger in the Kingdom) places his new novel once again in mythical Kingdom County, a region in northeastern Vermont. There, in 1930, resides Miss Jane Hubbell Kinneson, an eccentric library/bookstore proprietor and bird carver of Scottish and Native American ancestry. Jane is also the last remaining heir to mile-high Kingdom Mountain, a vast unspoiled wilderness that includes streams where a rare species of blue trout spawn. When she learns that a new road, the Connector, is scheduled to be bulk on the mountain, she makes a firm stand …