Echoes of the Equinox, the enchanting sequel to 'No Quit' in C.C. Phillips' new Jesse Sterling series: Because we'd had a fair amount of rain during the harvest of '50, Dad figured we ought to plant a few acres of fall rye to give us a jump on spring seeding next year; and it is a good thing we did because we thrashed a bumper crop in February '51. As a rule, that doesn't happen in this corner of the globe. The extended summer also afforded us time for unearthing whatever lay at the other end of that mammoth tusk I had tripped over in the rye field...