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04/11/2016

Looking forward to a Zeal Book Event in Fort Dodge on Thursday at Trinity United Methodist Church.

06/09/2015

Having lots of good conversations with people in the booth at Iowa United Methodist Conference. Letting people know I would love to come to their church and tell the amazing story of the Peters sisters during worship, Sunday School, UMW, family night, or really just about anywhere.

06/01/2015

11x17 poster, $12.75 plus $5 shipping and handling.
Photo taken near Orient, Iowa, July 22, 2013.

06/01/2015

11x17 poster, $12.75 plus $5 shipping and handling.
Photo taken in my workshop December 14, 2014.

06/01/2015

11x17 poster, $12.75 plus $5 shipping and handling.
Photo taken in my back yard April 25, 2015.

10/17/2014

It was such a delight to lead a Zeal book event at the Princeville Heritage Museum last Tuesday night. The Peters sisters and their 7 brothers and sisters were members of the Methodist Church in Princeville, Illinois and raised on a farm 6 miles east of town. The Museum staff were very helpful when we stopped there in the spring of 2010 as Nan was finishing up research on the book. One of the best small town museums I've ever set foot in.

09/01/2014

Looking forward to leading a book event at First United Methodist Church in Iowa City this Wednesday, September 3. 214 E Jefferson St, Iowa City, IA 52245; luncheon at noon; presentation following. If you're in the area drop in. The event is sponsored by the United Methodist Women of the church.

04/30/2014

Mary Peters spoke at the equivalent of United Methodist Women's Assembly in 1909. It was held in Washington, D.C. There she was selected to attend the World Missionary Conference of 1910 in Edinburgh, Scotland. It is considered by many as the beginning of the ecumenical movement. She returned to China via the Trans-Siberian railway. Because she had come to the U.S. from Shanghai to San Franscisco and spent the winter here in Adair County, Iowa, she thus made it all the way around the globe during that extended furlough. By placing a pin on Google Earth in every place she spoke during that trip I calculated she traveled at least 25,000 miles during that 19 months.

04/28/2014

The display at UMW Assembly caught a lot of attention. Hung our kitchen TV from a framework of reclaimed lumber covered by reclaimed bamboo blinds. Showed the movie I made from Keynote presentation in a continuous loop.

04/26/2014

A terrific day at UMW Assembly yesterday. Steady flow of book sales. Wonderful conversations. Great contacts with world leaders of UMW. Hillary is presenting keynote this morning (our Exhibitor badges didn't qualify us to get in :-( ). Heading back to the booth for afternoon and evening.

04/12/2014

The research trip to San Diego in February did result in finding where Sarah and Mary are buried - Glen Abbey Memorial Park in Bonita, CA. It was an unknown until the trip. The only lead was a reference to "services" in a notice about Mary. The Asbury Methodist Church in San Diego where the sisters attended was closed in the 1970s. Found out it merged with Wesley.

04/05/2014

There's a new video at www.TingleyRoad.com Made it for my booth at United Methodist Women Assembly later this month in Louisville. Assembly gathers UMW from around the world every 4 years - 6,000 this year. The video is a sample of slides I show during Zeal Book Events.

02/15/2014

It was a delight to personally present a second copy of Zeal to Educate Women to the Claremont Library last week. I also left a copy with the California/Pacific United Methodist Conference archives housed at Claremont. Archivist Linda Larsen was very gracious in helping locate some records regarding Asbury United Methodist Church in San Diego where Mary and Sarah were active after retirement. The church merged with Wesley in the 1970s.

01/21/2014

It was a nice surprise to find Mary's signature on a 1913 Certificate of Registration of American Citizen. In the right hand margin she signs her Chinese name.
德馬利亞 dé mă lì yà (Virtuous Maria or something like that).

10/08/2013

Presenting "Zeal to Educate Women" at the Ellston Library on September 29. Lively discussion afterwards. Thanks to brother John Allen for the photo.

10/08/2013

So many good conversations at the display booth I set up at Iowa United Methodist Conference.

10/08/2013

It was great to get the first shipment and open the first box.