Works by
Gloria Waldron Hukle
(Writer)

Fiction

• The Diary of a Northern Moon (2007)
  The Diary of a Northern Moon is the second novel by Gloria Waldron Hukle in a planned series of three, weaving a tapestry of captivating story within the Waldron Family. In l976, twenty-six year old Tena Waldron, an advertising executive living in Upstate New York, receives a small, anonymous package in the mail. The contents of this package become the catalyst for an intriguing journey to her deceased father's hometown, North Creek, New York. Mysteries begun 350 years ago unravel as what she discovers can only be the impossible.

• Manhattan: Seeds of the Big Apple (2006)
  The heartfelt story of one immigrating family’s journey to colonial America, and especially their spiritual struggle with the meaning of cultural diversity long before it became an important expression of our time 300 years later.
  
  Before the English named it New York, and before the Dutch called it New Amsterdam, it was known as Mahikan to the Algonquin, one of the Native American nations that occupied the area. It meant, “Island of the Rolling Hills.” After the colonists arrived, Mahikan became Manhattan.
  
  In l655, lower Manhattan was a Dutch community of about 120 houses, its people protected by a fort and a log wall which served as a defense against Indian attacks. Today’s Wall Street traces the line of that planked divider.
  
  Arriving from Holland on the ship Princess, Resolved Waldron, his wife Tennake, and their 3 children settled on New Amsterdam’s Block B at the tip of Manhattan Island.
  
  Their immediate neighbors included Augustine Herrman, Pieter Schaefbanck, jailor, Hendrick Hendricksen, Domine (Clergy) Samuel Drisius, Dan Tourneur, Isaac de Forest, and Col. Phillip Pietersen Schuyler.
  
  These early seeds sought personal liberties that ultimately lead to our Bill of Rights.
  
  It is here at the crossing of Broadway and Wall Street and near present day ground zero where our story begins ...