Book talk with local author Michael Miller and his new novel, High Bridge. that tells the intertwined stories of a future President, Grover Cleveland, and a suffragist, Matilda Joslyn Gage, set in mid nineteenth century Fayetteville, New York.   

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“High Bridge by Michael Miller is a brilliantly crafted novel that blends true history and fiction to tell a story of two American icons. Miller utilizes the actual history that Grover Cleveland and Matilda Joslyn Gage both lived in the Fayetteville, N.Y. area at the same time in the mid-19th century. With no existing historical proof available on how much a young Grover Cleveland may have known or interacted with Mrs. Gage during this time, Miller fills in the gaps with compelling fiction. He tells a wonderful story of what might have been, truly capturing the essence that history knows both Cleveland and Gage to be; honest, fair, and defenders of human rights. As a historian and a native of the Fayetteville-Manlius area, I can attest to Miller’s impeccable research in writing this fascinating novel.”  Laurence L. Cook, Presidential Historian and author of Presidential Coincidences, Amazing Facts and Collectibles and Symbols of Patriotism: First Ladies and Daughters of the American Revolution