Beneath Their Feet

About the Book

From heartache to joy, these are the stories of mummies, earthquakes and a doomed hospital in a cave, dynamite and thievery. Here is a history spanning the first 130 years of the longest cave in the world.

Beneath Their Feet is told through the fictional lives of four generations living on Mammoth Cave Ridge until the government bought their farm to make room for one of the country's most colorful National Parks.

Beneath Their Feet is a colorful tapestry interwoven between the real and the imagined involving the lives of the Penn and Lamber families. This is a story involving the hardships and struggles of these strong, independent, hard-working men and women who formed a part of south-central Kentucky, wrested from a sparsely populated land of hard clay.

Beneath Their Feet is the first book to tell the history of Mammoth Cave in novel form.

About the Author

Pat lived at Mammoth Cave for seven years and was granted permission to borrow the extensive research material collected by her first husband, James F. Quinlan, who died in 1995. Pat now lives in Aurora, Colorado.