Death in KingsportBy: Curtis Parkinson Kingsport, a small town on the shores of Lake Ontario, is struggling through the fall and winter of 1941 in the aftermath of the Great Depression. For fifteen year old Neil, life is simple and routine, until his favorite uncle, Chester, suddenly dies, and he is engulfed by an aching loneliness. At his uncles cremation aboard a freighter in the harbor, Neil has a strange sense of foreboding as he inadvertently hears a thumping