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On a frosty November night in 1872, a warehouse fire, fanned by a chilling breeze, erupts into a conflagration that razes much of Boston's downtown. This sudden catastrophe propels Herb Andersen and his mother, Sally, out of the familiar city and life they knew into an uncertain world.

Changing schools as a senior is traumatic for Herb, but his prospects after graduation are even worse. Should he try college or seek a job during the 1873 economic panic? The New York Stock Exchange closes for ten days in the fall of 1873, and one business after another declares bankruptcy.

Herb's struggle to define his future sparks his curiosity to learn about the father he has never known. By chance, he meets Alexander Graham Bell and becomes involved with the inventor's effort to create a device to transmit the sound of voice over wire.

Sally, too, faces obstacles as she navigates late-nineteenth-century expectations of women as a single mother determinedly working on the right for women to vote. In The Ring of a Bell,

Ellen Kingman Fisher weaves together the lives of her characters and their separate quests with true-life individuals and events to create an evocative story of self-discovery and resilience. The story takes place in a time of innovation and invention that brings prosperity for some and poverty for others-the era Mark Twain labeled the Gilded Age.

Dr. Fisher was a senior program officer with the Gates Family Foundation and the Director of the Molly Brown House Museum in Denver. She served on the board of the Colorado State Historical Society (now History Colorado) for 28 years and on the Advisory Board of the National Trust for Historic Preservation for nine years. Historic Denver gave her the Molly Brown Spirit Award for community service. Similarly, the University of Colorado at Denver gave her the Alumni Recognition Award for her role in developing the public history (applied history) program at CU Denver. Her publications include Junior League: Leaders in Community Service 1918-1993, "Power's Dynamo Unloosed: Henry L. Doherty and the Denver Gas and Electric Company," and One Hundred Years of Energy, Public Service Company of Colorado. Hill's Gold, her first novel, was awarded first place in historical fiction by the Colorado Independent Publishers Association and was a finalist in the Colorado Authors League awards. The Price of a Contract is the second historical fiction in a series about business entrepreneurs in the American West and won a CIPA bronze award. The Ring of a Bell, a novel about the coming of age, women's rights, and the early development of the telephone, published in 2024. The author has spent most of her life in Colorado enjoying the outdoors, including climbing all of Colorado's fourteeners, Mt. Rainier, and Kilimanjaro. She and her husband have three grown children and four grandsons.