“Kenny” and “Up Ferguson Way”: Two Novellas of Pleasant Valley (1947, 1944): Although these stories are fictional Louis Bromfield set both within the actual real-world environment of Malabar Farm. Today it is possible to walk the landscape he described so lovingly in these pages. These stories also give some interesting insight into the spiritual thinking of the author.
Kenny, a charming and rather eerie tale of a fawn-like boy who wins a place for himself on an Ohio farm, grows up there, and when the war brings an end to his life, finds a way to return through his friend and a stray dog and a baby;
Up Ferguson Way, A fictional work (from 1953) by Pulitzer-prize winner Louis Bromfield, would epitomize Bromfield's work. First appearing as a chapter in Pleasant Valley, Up Ferguson Way was set at the high-meadowed prairie at Malabar Farm that bore its name. William Ferguson was one of the earliest settlers to the valley.