1890  "eight-rock" families migrate to Oklahoma from Louisiana and Mississippi; "the Disallowing" in Fairly/Oklahoma; by 1891 founding of Haven/Oklahoma and building of Oven

1919  returning from World War I, Elder Morgan fights a whiteman in New York City (p. 94)

1922  Convent built as embezzler's palace

1924  Deacon and Steward Morgan (twins) born (p. 16)

1925  Consolata (age 9) kidnapped by Mary Magna in Brazil (223)

1942  Deacon and Steward enlist in the army for World War II

1947  Deacon and Soane marry

1949  Haven residents move farther west to found a new settlement (Ruby); Dovey and Steward marry (82)

1952  Ruby Morgan dies; the town is named after her

1954  Consolata first sees Deacon (226) at horse race and has an affair with him that summer and fall; Soane Morgan visits the Convent in November (238 ff.), then has miscarriage (102; 240)

1958  Seneca's sister/mother abandons her (126)

1961   Manley Gibson (Gigi's father) is put on death row when Gigi is 11 (309)

1964   Dovey and Steward learn that they can have no children (82)

1965   Consolata brings Scout back from the dead ("steps in" or "sees in," 247) after his car accident (245)

1968   Mavis' babies suffocate; Mavis arrives at Convent; Scout and Easter home on furlough at Thanksgiving (100)

1969   Scout and Easter die in the Vietnam War

1970   Misner called to Calvary Church in Ruby; Mavis returns to Maryland to try to see her children (258); Mary Magna (Mother Superior) dies; Grace (Gigi) arrives in Ruby; Arnette's first baby dies at the Convent (250)

1973   Billie Delia fights with her mother and leaves Ruby in October (202); meeting about the Oven takes place at Calvary Church; Sweetie goes to Convent (first time out of her house since 1967); Seneca helps her and joins the Convent crew; blizzard buries a station wagon with a white family in it; Gigi ends her affair with K.D. (259)

1974   buzzards appear during the spring thaw (272); Arnette and K.D. marry in April; Pallas is given refuge at the Convent, returns home in August, then comes back to the Convent after Christmas (or 1975?); Christmas play as a re-enactment of the Disallowing (or 1975?); Patricia burns the genealogies (or 1975?)

March 1975   K.D. and Arnette's (second) baby is born

January 1976  Consolata begins "therapy" with Convent dwellers

July 1976   raid on the Convent

September 1976   Deacon walks barefoot to Rev. Misner's house

November 1976  Save-Marie's funeral

Discrepancies (??):

- On p. 204 we are told that Nathan, born in 1885, married Elder Morgan´s daughter Mirth; their children were killed by a tornado in 1922. Since Elder returned from WWI in 1919 as a young man, we do not understand how he could have grandchildren by 1922!

- On p. 228 Consolata is 31 when she meets Deek (54 when Mother Superior dies, 247), but according to p. 223 she should be 38 when she begins her affair

- Consolata says the Convent women arrived during a period of 8 years (222), but it seems to be from 1968-74, just 6 years

- We seem to have lost a year somewhere! Pallas arrives in Ruby, pregnant, in time for Arnette and K.D.'s wedding reception (April 1974) and has her baby around the time that the Convent dwellers are undergoing the therapy sessions with Consolata (early 1976). Help!!