Signs of Hope In Praise of Ordinary Heroes: Selections from Hope Magazine

by Wilson, Jon; Ridley, Kimberly

• ISBN13: 9781888889208
• ISBN10: 1888889209
• Edition: 00
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-10-17
• Publisher: Pushcart Press

Summary

Several years ago, Jon Wilson, editor of the acclaimed magazine WoodenBoat, decided he'd had enough of the constant barrage of violence and misery in the media. His answer was the magazine Hope, dedicated to stories by and about those uncelebrated people who work to improve themselves, their communities, and the world, elevating and illuminating the best of humanity.

Author Biography

Jon Wilson became a carpenter and builder of wooden boats before launching WoodenBoat magazine from a cabin in Maine in 1974. He began working on ideas for Hope magazine in 1994, and launched the magazine in early 1996. He is Publisher and Editor-in-Chief of Hope Kimberly Ridley is Editor of Hope magazine

Table of Contents

Introduction	x
Jon Wilson
Kimberly Ridley
Fences and Fields	13	(8)
Andre Dubus III
The Street Where We Live	21	(4)
Mark Harris
Imagining Family	25	(7)
Nell Bernstein
If Lightning Hits, We'll Die Together	32	(10)
Janisse Ray
Why Schools Don't Educate	42	(10)
John Taylor Gatto
The Boredom Effect	52	(5)
Ellen Ruppel Shell
The Place of the Possible	57	(14)
Sarah Putnam
My Mother is a Rodeo Queen	71	(3)
Tonya Evetts Weimer
Indian Giver	74	(10)
Kimberly Ridley
No Fear of the Dark	84	(14)
David Eskes
Reading Lesson	98	(3)
Edith Pearlman
Chance	101	(4)
Alexander Chee
Crossing Delancey	105	(11)
Jane Braxton Little
Why Lawyers Get No Respect	116	(6)
Harvey Schwartz
A Day in the life of the Hole in the Wall Gang Camp	122	(9)
Bob Tedeschi
The Gilligan Cure	131	(6)
Nancy McCallum
The Cellist of Sarajevo	137	(4)
Paul Sullivan
The Gardening Angels	141	(7)
Marty Hair
Our Newest Old Friends	148	(9)
Johanna Garfield
Mamma's Boy	157	(5)
Peter D. Baird
The Strangest Faith	162	(13)
Edie Clark
Crying for Justice	175	(12)
Jon Wilson
Sowing Seeds of Hope	187	(9)
Bill Mayher
An Outward Bound Epiphany	196	(3)
Garfield
Beneath the Skin	199	(4)
Colin Chisholm
Giving Thanks for Grief	203	(2)
Jennifer Armstrong
Widow Making	205	(10)
Helen Joyce Harris
Fossil Brothers	215	(7)
Peter H. Spectre
Cultivating the Magpie Eye	222	(3)
Clinton W. Trowbridge
Selling the Camp	225	(4)
Kimberly Ridley
My Father, My Son	229	(4)
Melissa Kent
My Mother at the End of the Her life	233	(8)
John Daniel
Invitation to Rapture	241	(10)
Candice Stover
Without Wings	251
Claudia Schmidt