Author Gloria Waldron Hukle

Gloria Waldron Hukle NEWS

Jan 2010 Manhattan Seeds of the Big Apple available in ebook and Third novel Threads now in soft cover too

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Well researched and chuck full of New York and Pennsylvania early eighteenth century colonial people, places and events woven together-

Threads An American Tapestry is a third novel for Author, Gloria Waldron Hukle. Hukle’s readers will be excited to learn that this new book chronologically follows Manhattan Seeds of the Big Apple.

In the opening l723 scene, central character, Margaret Vandenberg, carefully watches the departure of the provincial New York census taker’s carriage, fearful that he may have already made a dangerous discovery while interrogating her slaves.

Margaret, a wealthy woman in her thirties, the sole daughter of a Native American and prosperous Dutch immigrant struggles with many issues as she prepares to marry. She vows that she will leave all in God’s hands-but can she?

This then, is the story of Margaret, her family, friends and servants, and a few in the Colony who dislike her, for reasons that haven’t changed among humankind since time began.

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Author Gloria Waldron Hukle and her husband make their home in Averill Park, New York.

MANHATTAN - SEEDS OF THE BIG APPLE

A Historical Fiction by Gloria Waldron Hukle is the heartfelt story of one immigrating family’s journey to colonial America, and especially their spiritual struggle with the meaning of cultural diversity long before it became an important expression of our time 300 years later.

Before the English named it New York, and before the Dutch called it New Amsterdam, it was known as Mahikan to the Algonquin, one of the Native American nations that occupied the area. It meant, “Island of the Rolling Hills.” After the colonists arrived, Mahikan became Manhattan.

In l655, lower Manhattan was a Dutch community of about 120 houses, its people protected by a fort and a log wall which served as a defense against Indian attacks. Today’s Wall Street traces the line of that planked divider.

Arriving from Holland on the ship Princess, Resolved Waldron, his wife Tennake, and their 3 children settled on New Amsterdam’s Block B at the tip of Manhattan Island.

Their immediate neighbors included Augustine Herrman, Pieter Schaefbanck, jailor, Hendrick Hendricksen, Domine (Clergy) Samuel Drisius, Dan Tourneur, Isaac de Forest, and Col. Phillip Pietersen Schuyler.

These early seeds sought personal liberties that ultimately lead to our Bill of Rights.

It is here at the crossing of Broadway and Wall Street and near present day ground zero where our story begins......... 

THE DIARY OF A NORTHERN MOON

HE WAS BORN A COUNTRY BOY IN THE UPSTATE NEW YORK ADIRONDACK MOUNTAINS. A short forty-one years later, he was gone from the face of the earth.

BUT…..WHO REALLY WAS BEN WALDRON?

In a quiet, northern community, Tena Waldron learns that nothing is as it seems –not even the smell of the balsam.

MYSTERY * HISTORY * FORGIVENESS- these are the keywords in this 2^nd Novel of the series by Gloria Waldron Hukle

(Waldron Crest and the original signature of Resolved Waldron are two of the unique images contained in this new novel)

The Waldron saga introduced in MANHATTAN SEEDS OF THE BIG APPLE followed Resolved Waldron, the ancestor of the author, as he and his young wife made their home mid l7th century Manhattan on the corner of what is today Broadway and Wall Street. 

Decades roll into centuries and it seems that all connective links to these original settlers of New York State have rotted far beneath the paved city streets…until a strangely unique gift wrapped in plain brown paper arrives at Tena’s apartment…THE DIARY OF A NORTHERN MOON