Martha Ballard is a midwife in Hallowell ... Suspecting that the man was murdered by his partner in crime, Joseph North, a powerful judge and businessman, Martha sets out to investigate and ...

Already weighted down by soaked clothing and heavy leather boots, the dead man bobs in ... in this novel - Martha Ballard of Hallowell, Maine, who really existed. She is a midwife.

Martha Ballard was a real midwife in the late 1700s who delivered more than 1,000 babies without ever losing a mother. Ballard kept a diary of her life and the town secrets she learned thanks to ...

In Ariel Lawhon's "The Frozen River," narrator Martha Ballard reveals how a person would navigate the river that flows through Hallowell, Maine, in the late 18th century: "There are only two ways ...

In November 1789, midwife and healer Martha Ballard is summoned to determine the cause of death of a man entombed in Maine’s frozen Kennebec River. Her profession ensures she is more aware than ...

Martha Ballard ... said the Chair of Augusta Mayor Committee on Marth Ballard Larry Fleury. “Laurel Ulrich wrote the book ‘A Midwife’s Tale and that was done in 1990 and I think the ...

When Martha, the town’s midwife and healer, is summoned to examine a body pulled from the water one bitterly cold morning in November 1789, she finds a bruised and battered man who clearly didn ...