The Redfield family is one of the old families that reappear in a number of Barron stories, not unlike [[Arden]] and [[Miller]]. The most notable example of the name is the title of the story [[The Redfield Girls]]. The Redfield Girls are _"a close knit sorority of veteran teachers from Redfield Memorial Middle School in [[Olympia, WA|Olympia]] ([[Washington State]])."_ ([[The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All]]). The name Mel Redfield is mentioned once in [[Hallucigenia]] and probably refers to the character Melvin Redfield who appears in [[The Croning]]: "Melvin Redfield the prodigal poet and heir apparent of the Pierce County Redfields, who owned enough of said county to convert it to a duchy were they so inclined. Melvin was a onetime high school baseball captain, fulltime wastrel, and prematurely gray. He’d always been shrill and his voice was in fine form after a snootful of Hennessy." (The Croning, chapter 5) Kyle Redfield, Melvin's older brother, apparently died from an accident close to the [[Hanford Nuclear Reservation]]. "Kyle, who, according to all reports, was cut of a different cloth than his dilettante sibling, had made lieutenant in the Navy, gone into the family law business. Too bad Kyle clipped a power line while cruising around the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in Luke Whitman’s ultra-lite. The Whitmans were still smarting from that public relations disaster." (The Croning, chapter 5) The Redfield Museum of Natural History in Olympia is mentioned in both [[Hand of Glory (Story)]] and [[The Croning]]. #Character