Lynn Marie Hughes

In the utopian community of Hopedale, Massachusetts in 1855, eight-year-old mail carrier Susie makes her rounds and shows the reader what makes her town so special. This full-color picture book introduces young readers to the history and ideals of the Hopedale Community, whose members all pledged ne...

Christian Non-Resistance (1846) is the major philosophical statement by the nineteenth-century theorist of nonviolence, Adin Ballou. Ballou argued that the Biblical injunction "resist not evil" should be understood as "resist not personal injury with personal injury." While prohibiting the injury of...

The Hopedale Community was one of the most important and successful of the many utopian communities started in the mid-nineteenth century United States. It outlasted its famous contemporary, Brook Farm, by nearly a decade. Though it did not succeed in ushering in "a new civilization radically higher...

Where-to guide to 66 viewing sites of the best locations to watch wildlife including mammals and birds in their natural environment. Offical field guide of the Watchable Wildlife Series.

This little book is devoted to remembering the "good old days" of living in the utopian community of Hopedale, Massachusetts during the 1840s and 1850s. The pleasures and hardships of life in a village devoted to re-creating civilization in a non-violent, cooperative and equitable way are examined, ...

This book relates how the human spirit can not only survive but prosper in adversity. Having been involved in the Vietnam conflict it was interesting to see life from a Vietnamese perspective. The Lord loves and guides regardless of where a person is from and I felt my faith in God reinforced by the...

Practical Christian Socialism (1854) was Adin Ballou's most comprehensive exposition of his fundamental principles and their application to personal and community life, ranging from theology and political theory to marriage, child-rearing, and a surprisingly frank discussion of sexuality. In Practi...

Words of reassurance and strategies for coping with the loss of a parent, by the director of the nation's largest bereavement camp for children.Loss is one of the most isolating experiences there is, and kids who have lost a parent feel especially different than those around them. Comfort Zone Camp ...