After only one semester at the University of Massachusetts, Roxanne Quimby told her father she was dropping out of school to follow her boyfriend, George, to the San Francisco Art Institute to pursue oil painting. Her father had expected her to get an MBA from the...
To the loggers and company officials at Maxxam Lumber in Humboldt, California, 23-year-old Julia “Butterfly” Hill was an “extremist tree-hugging hippy radical environmentalist.” To the environmental activists at Earth First, she was a courageous, inspirational,...
Forty miles from Lebourget Air Field in Paris, he began to see the flares. Thirty-three hours earlier, 500 people had watched the 25-year-old pilot take off from a muddy Roosevelt Field runway in New York. He was hoping to become the first pilot to make a solo...
As a young boy, Matthew Barnett had a dream for a church that would remain open 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. His father, Tommy Barnett, the pastor of one of the three largest churches in America, inspired him to start an inner-city ministry in Los Angeles,...
In the spring of 1943, Scottish Commander Ernest Gordon lay dying in the infamous Japanese prison camp, Chungkai, located in a Thailand jungle on the bank of the Kwai River. He had been placed on the muddy ground next to several corpses in the filthy camp...