Blue Sky and a Buick

By: Karen Wilkes, Jean Norman - editor, Katharine Jefferts Schori - preface

Narrated by: Karen Wilkes

It is hard not to fall in love with fashion plate Mary Christiana Hettler who gives up the high society of Chicago to ultimately move to rural Nevada, one of the bleakest sites in the nation to serve as an Episcopal Deaconess.

Upon landing in the mining town, known primarily as a murder capital during int heyday, Mary Christiana doesn't give an inch.

She transforms a dusty, dingy "icebox" of a house into one that becomes the heart of the Episcopal community with hot pink rooms, exotic flowers and a rolling, grassy yard.

In the process, she brings beauty and spirit to a little girl who can never quite forget her.

Listen to Blue Sky and a Buick as a loving portrait, a history of Nevada, a unique insight into the women's movement inside of the church or a subtle story of growing up in a Wild West that still lived in rural Nevada.

©2012 Karen Wilkes (P)2025 Karen Wilkes