A Hill Country Christmas: Hope for Hardscrabble Times

Description: After surviving the Siege of Bexar in December 1835, Deaf Smith and his son-in-law Hendrick Arnold prepare their family for Santa Anna's reprisal while attempting to celebrate Las Posadas one last time in their San Antonio home.Despite a harrowing journey across 5000 miles of ocean and frontier, two Sisters of Divine Providence find reason to give thanks for the blessings of Christmas 1868 at a mission school in Castroville.Fiery circuit-riding preacher Andrew Jackson Potter stirs Uvalde pioneers with an 1872 visit that erupts to cause surprising results.An Indian attack on Christmas Eve 1876 brings tragedy to a family in Denman (Junction), but even a difficult Christmas offers hope.Unaware that a Great War looms just ahead, two sisters seek vastly different objectives when student pilots from Stinson School of Flying make a chivaree wedding reception in Kendalia the social event of the 1916.When the Spanish Influenza epidemic threatens Boerne while the town's only physician is serving in World War I France, Sheriff Joe Saunders institutes a lockdown and pays a personal price for "cancelling Christmas."By Christmas 1918, World War I is over, but soldiers are still in Europe awaiting Armistice agreements. A flash flood in Comfort, Texas compels one family to set aside their own grief and concerns to find "room in the inn" for a stranded stranger.In the midst of the Great Depression, a young widow struggles to give her daughter a happy Christmas and discovers unexpected joy in Menard, Texas.Beset by needs on every hand, a Gatesville physician working with WWII veterans at Waco's VA hospital confronts his own lingering PTSD and encounters new possibilities for life and love.With two brothers deployed in World War II, a Kerrville teen longing to enter the Schreiner Institute's military program must finds other ways to serve at home in a heartwarming 1943 holiday story.In an old-fashioned Christmas story reminiscent of Earl Hamner's stories about the Waltons, war's consequences teach one Fredericksburg boy that friends and family are life's most important gifts.Hilarity ensues when two sisters take jobs to help their family make ends meet and are presented with opportunities they never dreamed of in Cherry Springs, Texas.Preparing to leave for college, a Mason youth reflects on Christmases past and the sacrifices his parents made to assure his future.A San Marcos policeman volunteering as a Blue Santa builds bridges of goodwill with the family of a former criminal.A recent immigrant accepts the challenge to learn German as well as English, embracing her adopted New Braunfels community as new traditions become her own.Worlds collide when an event planner for Austin's elite finds common ground with a Wimberley cedar chopper who exemplifies "goodwill to all." Shipped the next day 5/19/24

Price: 17.99 USD

Location: Pettus, Texas

End Time: 2024-11-05T22:13:33.000Z

Shipping Cost: 4.63 USD