It’s here at last—the book YOU wanted us to review! In honor of baseball’s Opening Day, Amy and Jacinta step up to the plate with the winner of last season’s First 5 Pages Challenge, Ice-Cream Alley by Henry Albert Collins (1918), and explore all the ways this audience-selected book surprised and disappointed them. Plus Amy introduces us to the most famous Gibson Girl of the 1890s, Minnie Clark!
Topics and shout-outs in this episode include: Charles Dana Gibson, Gibson Girls, Minnie Clark, The First 5 Pages Challenge, baseball, Cracker Jack, Anne of the Island, Eric Liddell, Chariots of Fire, Kirk Gibson, the 1988 World Series, Sense & Sensibility, Catherine Marshall, Peter Marshall, New York Avenue Presbyterian Church, A Man Called Peter, the Rollings Reliable Baking Powder Company, life annuity bonds, applied Christianity, the Methodist Episcopal Church, YMCA, Moody Bible College, James Carroll Beckwith, Daniel C. French, the Chicago 1893 World’s Fair, Percy Griffin, and Easter.