Crossing to Freedom

About the Book

Crossing to Freedom assembles stirring stories of hundreds of kindred families. One of the lines is traced back to 540 A.D., but most of the spacious chronicle is set in the centuries following 1630, when members of these families began flocking to America’s shores to escape religious persecution in many parts of the Old World.

About the Author

Elizabeth Bardwell was eighty-two when she finished writing Crossing to Freedom. During the years when she was making a home for her husband, a judge, and was raising four children, she did some freelance magazine and newspaper writing. Her chief activity outside the home was as an advocate planner. She pushed for city bicycle paths, shade trees in parking lots, urban land use conducive of effective mass transit. To illuminate the environmental degradation that comes with excessive and random urban growth, she wrote the book More is Less in 1973 and produced the award-winning video 20 20 Vision in 1991.