Calico Dance, Escape to Sweden is a book about the life of an hypothetical family as they face the terrors of the Thirty Years' War in their homeland. In the German state of Hesse, where they live, uprisings of soldiers and peasants take their toll upon their home and family. Their house is burned and land taken. This family flees for their lives as an invading army threatens their existence, because they refuse to give up their Calvinist faith to return to the "Mother Church," which their forefathers separated from during the Reformation. The year 1631 is the book's focus, soon after the...
Calico Dance, Escape to Sweden is a book about the life of an hypothetical family as they face the terrors of the Thirty Years' War in their homeland....
Calico Dance, Escape to Sweden is a book about the life of an hypothetical family as they face the terrors of the Thirty Years' War in their homeland. In the German state of Hesse, where they live, uprisings of soldiers and peasants take their toll upon their home and family. Their house is burned and land taken. This family flees for their lives as an invading army threatens their existence, because they refuse to give up their Calvinist faith to return to the "Mother Church," which their forefathers separated from during the Reformation. The year 1631 is the book's focus, soon after the...
Calico Dance, Escape to Sweden is a book about the life of an hypothetical family as they face the terrors of the Thirty Years' War in their homeland....
Sizzlin' Summer Surprise, a book of historical fiction, traces the experiences of a high school teacher during his summer of study at a university in Detroit, Michigan. He, along with the other teachers in this vigorous course of academic work, meet up with more than they expect when a riot breaks out in the city. The year is 1967, a turbulent year in our nation's history, which becomes the background for quite a moving adventure in this book. The author in no way tries to assess blame, reason, or interpret outcomes, other than his own life changes during that summer. It is fiction;...
Sizzlin' Summer Surprise, a book of historical fiction, traces the experiences of a high school teacher during his summer of study at a university ...
