The story is told of MacDowell’s Quaker beginnings, his irrepressible interest in music, his youthful triumphs abroad, including playing at the famed Zurich Festival, and his marriage to Marian Nevins – all these and more are some of the delightful stories in this rich career of the great American composer. The book also tells of the launching of the colony in Peterboro, New Hampshire, which bears his name.