Meatball Birds and Seven Other Stories

About the Book

The stories in Meatball Birds and Seven Other Stories--The Canadian, Royce Hare, Home, Meatball Birds, The Falls Brawl, Conrad Forester, Miss Hutchinson, and The Horse--add more details to the lives of the Cockburn family and other residents of Menninger, North Dakota, the fictional town first introduced in the novel The Song Is Ended and continued in the novel The Dark Between The Stars. They are visits to small town life from the early years of the twentieth century to the 1960s.

About the Author

Kenneth C. Gardner, Jr., was born in New Rockford, ND, and was raised on the drift prairies in the central part of that state. He is a graduate of New Rockford High School and Minot State University and received a Masters degree in History from the University of North Dakota. He taught for forty-seven years: Kenmare (ND) High School, 1966-1967, and Drayton (ND) High School, 1967-2013. He and his wife Carol raised three children--Kathy, Kenny, and Jeff--and each has gone on to a successful career. He is the author of a non-fiction book, Echoes of Distant School Bells: A History of the Drayton Public School, in two volumes, and of two novels, The Song Is Ended (iUniverse, 2011) and The Dark Between The Stars (iUniverse, 2012).