Yankee Stranger Author:Elswyth Thane Williamsburg, Virginia is once more the scene of Miss Thane's story, as it was in Dawn's Early Light, but the time is the 1860's. Some of the characters are descendants of those in Dawn's Early Light, and Grandmother Day, who was sixteen when Cornwallis surrendered at Yorktown, is now ninety-five. — The story moves from Williamsburg to Richmond t... more »o Washington and back again, during the dreadful years between Fort Sumter and Appomattox. Here is action, here is romance, and here is a vanished world re-created. This is book 2 of the Williamsburg series.« less