Farewell the Winterline Online Book

Farewell the Winterline - Online Reader

Note, May 2006: Welcome to our online reader. This will soon include the entire text of Farewell the Winterline. This version includes very few photos or graphics which makes it load quickly for dialup users or text-based browsers. We will soon include a very inexpensive Acrobat version you can download and view on your own computer and print out. This version will include up to 50 photos. Of course the full printed version includes the full text, over 250 photos and graphics and a full index to the text.

Enjoy the free online version!

Reader's Reviews:

This is a beautiful and well-written book of a young man lucky enough to have had the experience of living and attending school...in India before World War II. It was absolutely fascinating. I had no idea that the children of a Baptist minister would enjoy such a privileged life! I envy his mother... She had a cook, a cleaner, a gardener & a watchman...[the author] is a wonderful story teller.
J. Pike - Bridgeport CT

You....weave school history, family history and world history into a....fascinating account. Your wry humor and gentle philosophical awareness present the reader with a picture of love and joy in living.
S. Stoddard - Lincoln NE

...your wonderful book Farewell The Winterline...having read it cover-to-cover, offer my congratulations. You certainly brought those places and times back to life...The wealth of detail - which no doubt [was] the outcome of much diligent research, enriched and enlivened the story.
The design is elegant, and I like the way you arranged the material by chapters, as well as the alternating of pictures with text, making the whole very readable. For me it was a real "page-turner", as I looked forward to every new episode and insight... What a strange lot we were. In that Indian setting we seemed as missionaries – a most exotic species.
N. Williams - Washington D.C.

What an incredible account of growing up in India as seen through the prism of age and maturity. In addition to bringing Woodstock back to life again [the] story is very intimate and personal... [The] parting in Bombay brought tears.
E. Friesen - Longmont CO

Exceedingly well written... The pictures are great... A fascinating account of an era of missionary history.
G. Fackre - W.Hyannisport MA

Wonderful book... Has an historical value even beyond the sharing of memories... You have succeeded brilliantly in accurately imaging a wondrous time.
D. Pickett - Cosby TN

Your book on boyhood in India I have gobbled up... If you read Kim [by Rudyard Kipling] having lived in the Punjab, you feel the heat, smell the bazaars and the forests of the hills and hear the creaking of the bullock-cart wheels and so it is with parts of your memoirs... I enjoyed your book from first to last page.
D. Onneken - Friedrichsdorf, Germany

What a perfectly delightful surprise! ...How beautifully... produced the book is, with its many photographs and its charming tiny pictures between paragraphs, and, best of all, the superb cover design. I'm sure all Woodstockites... owe you a big debt of gratitude for giving us a book which even at a glance, brings precious memories flooding back.
C.T. Pickering - Cambridge, England

Your book is lovely! ...What a treasure... we girls at Wood-stock led a much “purer” life than did the boys...Your willingness to frankly divulge all the “raunch of young manhood” is very refreshing, and a little unexpected in a “missionary” environment.
R.F. Crowell - Springfield MA

I am thrilllllllled with the book. The son of a friend found it.... Wow! What a find. Thanks for writing it. I have not been able to put your book down. You have captured it all. Amazing...
I love all details...all of the pictures. And it is all so very well written. I have relived every paragraph, if not every word...A big big thanks.
M. Marble - Columbia MO

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