Reviews for Memories from New Hampshire's Lakes and Mountains: Fence Building & Apple Cider

The average rating for Memories from New Hampshire's Lakes and Mountains: Fence Building & Apple Cider based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2016-01-09 00:00:00 Steve Macdonald I bought this almost 6 years ago at a church function and am just getting around to it. Unfortunately, it was written 10 years before that, and so much of the information is woefully out of date. Doubly unfortunately, this is a book that needs to be rewritten now, because our cities are still a disaster area and I don't see the current administration going to bat for the poor, homeless, ill, or otherwise desperate people of the country. I had to stop reading because, with 16 years between publication and now, it's just so depressing. I know people doing solid, GOOD work inside the cities in this country--and making a difference--but seeing how little progress has been made just makes me cry. Not because I think the people in the inner cities don't deserve it, but because the CHURCHES in the SUBURBS could solve this problem, or go a long way toward fixing it. If they wanted to.

Review # 2 was written on 2018-12-18 00:00:00 Robert Blume Tony Campolo outlines his vision of church based community development. The book contains alot of good ideas but seems weak on real substance. In typical Tony fashion he makes some sweeping statements with spotty verification or referencing. That being said, Tony is to be commended for painting a broad vision for the church's role in reviving the city. The book is dated a bit (written around 2000), and in particular some of the things he says regarding Eastern University are painfully no longer true. It was interesting to read the original vision for the School for Social Change (first called the Insitutte for Urban Studies), and how far we have strayed.