Signs of Hope In Praise of Ordinary Heroes:

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.

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

Introduction

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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

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

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