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Doctor has another story to tell

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Published 10/29/09
Theresa Winslow — The Capital
Dr. Joan Lehmann, an emergency room physician at Baltimore Washington Medical Center, poses at Hard Bean Coffee & BookSellers in Annapolis with her new book. “Heaven Below” is about a Depression-era coal miner’s journey from Pennsylvania to life on the water in Shady Side. It’s available for purchase locally as well as online.
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One night about five years ago, Dr. Joan Lehmann had a very vivid dream.

It was about a man running for his life through the snow while carrying a young child.

The images stuck with her and became the basis for her new novel, "Heaven Below." The 371-page, self-published book came out about two months ago.

It tells the story of a Pennsylvania coal miner named Sean O'Connell (the man in the dream looked like Sean Penn, she said, so she used his first name) and his Depression-era journey to life on the water in Shady Side.

Lehmann wrote the bulk of the book in a furious spurt between Halloween and New...

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