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Lessie M. Drown

Lessie M. Drown

出版	1932
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=M2lqrgEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋

This "Scribble-In Book" contains a jotted down history of the town of Hopedale, Massachusetts. Recorded by Lessie M. Drown in 1932, her 87 page narrative chronicles the creation of a community based around a common bond of religion. Hopedale, according to Drown, was originally settles by a society named "Fraternity No. 1", which was founded on a declaration of faith entitled "Practical Christianity". The declaration begins "We are Christians. Our Creed is the New Testament. Our religion is love. Our only law is the will of God." The narrative goes on to explain the struggles of building a town from the ground up, including attaining land, building new schools and roads, bringing in manufacturing, and unfortunately, debt. The society went bankrupt, but as Drown writes, the exercise of community development was by no means a failure - "Personally I do not like to think of it as a failure, but as a beautiful and thrilling adventure which was first a thought then a wish ... then a faith, next a struggle and last a fact."