Whiskey Point and Methodists: Beginning Stories, Ending Journeys is a deeply reflective work that traces the union of two lives shaped by starkly different worlds and beliefs. Through carefully preserved memories, family records, letters, and lived experience, the book explores how identity, faith, class, and history converge within a marriage and ripple outward across generations. Set against the backdrop of early twentieth-century America, the memoir moves from the rough industrial neighborhoods of Chicago to the ordered traditions of Oak Park, revealing how love forms not in sameness but in contrast. At its heart, this is a story about inheritance not only of blood and name but of values, habits, faith, and resilience. The book invites readers to reflect on how personal histories quietly shape who we become and how families evolve over time.
About the Author
David Holmes is a writer whose work is shaped by a lifelong devotion to observation, learning, and memory. After a distinguished career as an interventional cardiologist, educator, international scholar, and inventor, he turned his full attention to creative writing and poetry, drawn by the same curiosity and discipline that guided his earlier professional life. His writing reflects a quiet attentiveness to family history, place, and the natural world, and an enduring belief in the value of examining where we come from to understand who we become. Holmes has published poems and essays and continues to write with clarity, restraint, and emotional honesty. He lives with his wife in the Swan Valley in Montana, close to the landscapes and family ties that continue to inform his work.
About the Book
Whiskey Point and Methodists centers on the lives of the author’s parents, who came from opposite ends of social, religious, and cultural life. One emerged from a tough Irish Catholic upbringing near the Union Stockyards of Chicago, shaped by labor, noise, and survival. The other was raised in a disciplined and devout Methodist household defined by restraint, education, and order. Their meeting and eventual marriage required negotiation, adaptation, and transformation from both sides. Through vivid storytelling and thoughtful reflection, the book examines childhood, courtship, faith, work, war, and family life, capturing moments of tenderness, conflict, humor, and endurance. More than a family memoir, the book becomes a meditation on how individuals carry the weight of their origins while forging something new together. It honors the courage required to bridge differences and the enduring bonds that form when two distinct histories are woven into a shared life.
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