In the Mists of Time

"A promising young painter, Hawkins Shortreed,and his friend, a gifted sculptor, happen uponan abandoned seaside farm. The stately Eighteenth Centuryfarmhouse, a barn, an overgrown graveyard, a contendinggranite cliff and the surging ocean create strong illusionsof past time and ghosts of past lives. How unsuspectingthe artists are of the mystery and the danger attached tothis idyllic property two and a quarter centuries before...mystery and danger which they stumble into.As bits of the mystery come together, so do misty hints ofa legendary treasure which induces a burgeoning threat ofdanger at the hand of a powerful adversary.The remarkable reappearance of Hawkins†childhoodsweetheart blossoms into more than romance. Shebecomes the innocent means of involving the two artistswith others, some good and some less so, who all playimportant roles in their lives and involve them in the fateof a beautiful forest.Can the forest be saved? Can they solve the mystery andsurvive the clandestine physical danger and machinationssecretly threatened by a powerful foe?Follow these youthful, inexperienced artists as the presentinterweaves with the past and their innocent guilelessnessis entwined by menacing evil."

Dr. Baldwin practiced medicine in New England for 32 years, the last 16, prior to his retirement, in Maine. He and his wife Roberta skied the lovely mountains of New Hampshire and Maine and in their small sailboat, spent countless happy days in the Atlantic Ocean off the Maine Coast. Together, they spent many years designing, engineering and building their rustic home on 30 wooded acres. Dr. Baldwin has published several medical articles and has recently turned his hand to works of general interest. "The Gibbs' Place Mystery" is the first work to exit "the pipeline" of his imagination.