PALACE IN THE FIELDS is the firsthand recollections of the youngest of a family of six, in organized anecdotal style, who moved from suburbia to a 270-acre working farm where the cash crop was tobacco in southern Maryland where the family lived for a ten-year period during the 1940's and 1950's. The farmhouse turned out to be "Dent's Palace," a colonial plantation manor which the parents restored to an elegant showplace. The author was six years old at the time of the move. Farm play and work activities as well as interaction with the unforgettable characters who were siblings, parents, neighbors, friends, and acquaintances, provides a slice of Americana which probably does not exist anymore.