Rainbow on the Road Author:Esther Forbes This is a tale of a man (or 2 men depending on how you look at it) & a legend. Ballads were being sung about Ruby, highwayman, while he & Jude, the itinerant painter who so strangely resembled him, were still alive; indeed before Jude was arrested forthe acts he should have liked to commit, but didn't. It is Jude's story, told by one who trave... more »led with him up & down New England for a year. It was still a young country, in the early days of the last century. etc.« less