Everyone's story is different and interesting. Illustrated stories of and by those people, their homes, their lives and Hopewell events continue the immigrants' "journey" to the present. Their descendants engaged in innovative farm practices some were inventors. Indiana pioneers overcame severe hardships in a tangled wilderness prospered and their children built notable houses, five of which enclose original log dwellings. Historians look at the Hopewell settlement and its accomplishments as the one most like the immigrants' vision of what their community could and should be. Only a few continued west - to establish churches, serve as ministers (almost 20), as missionaries (three) and to seek gold. Once established in a Johnson County area comparable in size to that in Kentucky, the settlers never again moved as a group. Fourteen families, descendants of those founders still worship at the church, live here and farm or work elsewhere. This book also celebrates the farming community encircling Hopewell Presbyterian Church, founded May 23, 1831. Their final move began in 1823 when Simon Covert discovered Hopewell's Big Spring, ending an almost 300-year saga with a permanent settlement west of Franklin, Indiana. In the late 1770s, families again packed up, loaded their wagons and traversed valleys in the Appalachian Mountains into Kentucky where they settled 5,945 acres sold to them in 1786 by Daniel Boone's brother, Squire, ancestor of two Hopewell Church members. When their closely-knit group of descendants began feeling hemmed in, families moved en mass in the early 1700s to New Jersey and, a few years later, near Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, developing the Conestoga wagon. Before long, they swore allegiance to their new country but struggled to preserve their Dutch language, way of life and worship. That group of Lowlands Dutch, French Huguenots and English settlers reached Nieu Amsterdam (New York). "The Hopewell Journey: 350 Years from Immigrant Religion to Hoosier Faith Hopewell Presbyterian Church 1831-2006" is the story of devout European Christians who sailed from The Netherlands for the New World in 1651 in search of freedom - mainly freedom in the way they worshiped God. Readers throughout the rest of the nation should expect to hear Tsing Loh bemoaning Van Nuys on the radio, the first printing of 20,000 copies should sell briskly.Paperback. Los Angeles Times Book Festival, which she's emceeing, and will tour the West Coast. (May)įorecast: Tsing Loh will launch her new book at the But that unfulfilled promise shrinks in the face of Tsing Loh's white-knuckled, dirty-fingernailed imagination.
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And while the book's title suggests the looming presence of an oppressive Van Nuys, the Los Angeles suburb lacks the full intensity of Tsing Loh's ferocious stare, save for some early references (e.g., it regularly ranks as one of the worst places to live in America). Unfortunately, her frenetic pace and humor slow in the final section.
Tsing Loh incorporates into her text crossed-out sentences, e-mail correspondence and outtakes from her television forays. This self-described downwardly mobile nonachiever views the world through "dung-colored glasses," though her message brightens as she frees herself of youthful goals and comes to accept her age and station.
Struggles with the friction between where she thinks her career, marriage, health and beauty should be and where they actually rate, with hilarious fallout. Tsing Loh, whose humorous neuroses will be familiar to listeners to public radio's Morning Edition Old standbys like marriage, older siblings, money and advertising are deftly dealt with, though she teeters on overkill with her primary obsession, aging. She targets such social phenomena as the Zone Diet, health clubs, plastic surgery and mass joke e-mails. With Tsing Loh ( Depth Takes a Holiday) behind the wheel, readers are in for a crackling, witty, loop-the-loop ride-no air bags, no seatbelts-across the interior landscape of an almost-40 writer coping with the pressures and irritations of modern society.
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