Pine Tree Ballads is a poetic vision of land, family, and time. A small farmhouse on Gray's Point is surrounded by a dark forest of ancient pines struggling against the incessant nor'easter gusts of the Atlantic Ocean. History creaks in the swaying limbs of this land where generations of my family have discovered moments of wisdom, adventure, fear, and the miraculous. In this place, stories have arisen from the mouths of both the young and old, and over time have become the essence of a family's identity. Pine Tree Ballads offers one of many poetic interpretations of my experience on this homestead. It is a unique memoir weaving the magical aura of an ancient, shared, historical record with the mysterious dreams met on dark moonless nights when one does not know if their eyes are open or closed.