By Josie Dew
Following "The Wind in My Wheels", Josie Dew recounts extra of her travels by means of bicycle. This time she describes a trip throughout the US and Hawaii, on which she met quite a few strange characters and skilled incidents which aroused a variety of feelings. in the course of her 8 months at the street she observed race riots in la, suffered extreme warmth in dying Valley, and witnessed sexual tantric seminars in Hawaii. From Utah to the good Lakes, through unbelievable locations reminiscent of Zzyzx and Squaw Tit, she deals a private memoir of the us as visible from the seat of a bicycle.
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231. Pastor and Denominationalist (1935 –1945) 37 and they allowed themselves two weeks to get there. At the camp Edith made a nail-keg stool that would become familiar in later years to many visitors to L’Abri in Switzerland. 11 The apartment was also a vigorous walk away from Westminster Theological Seminary, which was at that time located in an unremarkable building at 1528 Pine Street in the center of the city. The young couple settled in happily, employing their skills in making their own furniture and accessories.
Was the fact that in St. Louis, in the forties, he had told his 49Interview 50Ibid. with Priscilla and John Sandri, 2007. Pastor and Denominationalist (1935 –1945) 55 elders that he would resign if they moved the church out to the suburbs. When you read a history of America you see that was a defining event in American history—moving away from the city and out to the suburbs changed the culture and society completely. For some reason, I don’t know why, my father felt very strongly about that.
Francis Schaeffer 30 job was editing China’s Millions, the mission’s magazine. Edith began attending Germantown High School in her senior year, from which Fran had graduated. Her mother’s first marriage had been to Walter Greene, and they had planned to go to China together. At his untimely death and that of their baby son one year into the marriage, she had vowed never to remarry but rather to devote herself single-mindedly to mission work with the China Inland Mission. Four years later, after training in Toronto, she had sailed for Shanghai.