Blest Be The Tie

About the Book

BLEST BE THE TIE is the first volume of THE GOINS BRICOLAGE, a comic history of a visionary and his family, and the time and place in which they live. It is the story of Wilton Fox Goins, a highly competent and driven businessman of the first half of the 20th century who aspires to wealth, power and influence for himself, his family, his church and his beloved community of Aschburgh.

A clear-eyed fellow, determined to get what he wants out of life, while at the same time doing God’s will, Wilton’s dreams and aspirations are all too often thwarted by the even greater artistic aspirations of his wife Marva, by the Great Depression and the triumph of his bete noire Franklin Delano Roosevelt, as well as by the grinding provincial realites of life in Tecumseh and Stonewall Counties in the great Hoosier State of Indiana.

About the Author

Alexander Lawrence, a native of Brooklyn, New York, left that delightful borough of New York City thirty years ago to become a Hoosier, though in truth he had no idea at the time what that would entail. Settling in among the corn and soy bean fields which extended to the horizon, he and his family began a new life among a hardy people who remained loyal to the soil, the extended family, the churches and the small towns of rural Indiana. Now in retirement, Lawrence lives near the Savannah River in South Carolina, warmer in the Winters but still tied in spirit to the Hoosier homeland.