Holden Village - A Memoir: New Life - Endless Stories, by Werner Janssen
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Today Holden Village is a thriving educational and spiritual retreat center attracting teachers, artists, musicians, and people of all ages wanting to learn and grow. Nestled deep within the North Cascades in Washington State, Holden is surrounded by stunning views—a rare beauty in nature that came with a cost.
Once a bustling copper town, the mine closed in 1957, leaving the town abandoned. In the early 1960s, a group of Lutheran laity saw an opportunity to revitalize the town and took the risk of building a new community in an isolated location where communication with the outside world was only possible through the US mail service or amateur radio, with the nearest medical facilities forty miles away by helicopter or boat.
But as the community attracted teachers, students, and the retired who were willing to volunteer their time and enjoy the remote, isolated community to experience the awe-inspiring splendor, Holden Village soon became known as a place where people could learn and enjoy open discussions on a wide variety of subjects—including science, art, and theology.
Recounting the early decades of the revitalized town, Holden Village: A Memoir offers an inside view of a remarkable human experience of community and personal growth.
Holden Village - A Memoir: New Life - Endless Stories, by Werner Janssen- Amazon Sales Rank: #1512023 in Books
- Published on: 2015-03-05
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.00" h x .87" w x 6.00" l, 1.13 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 386 pages
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful. Early Days of Holden Village Written By An Insider By J. A. Matter [Full disclosure: I have known the author for 50 years (as of 2015); I have visited Holden Village many times; I have been a volunteer staff person; I have been on the Science and Technology Committee; and the author mentioned my father and I by name on page 210 of the text.]This memoir by Werner Janssen of the early days of Holden Village [HV], from 1961 to 1984, is probably the best account to date of that blessed place in those times. It is very informative, setting records straight which have been confused and distorted over the years, and breathing life into people who were instrumental in make HV what it is today - people who for many living now are just mere names. Werner portrays them as fully human, showing the good as well as the not so good in a balanced and sensitive manner. If he is not sure of his facts or doesn't know something, he states it plainly and moves on with his remembrance.Werner has had a long relationship with HV. He visited it in late September, 1961 to witness the commissioning of the oil-fed generators. He was on a council involved with HV in 1962. But it was in 1963 when his involvement became a true commitment. That year he was an early HV summer volunteer and later its first business manager, after leaving an engineering career at The Boeing Co. He worked with the first director of HV, Carroll Hinderlie, that dynamic and maverick proclaimer of the Gospel, as well as with Fritz Norstad, interim director and soother of nerves made raw by Hinderlie's departure (which Werner explains well), and John and Mary Schramm, bringers of consensus decision-making and raisers of peace and justice issues. During all these vastly different styles of directorship, Werner managed the operational side so that the program - learning sessions and worship services - could be offered in comfort and safety. It is astonishing to think that what Werner did all by himself now takes at least five people to accomplish today [the same could be said for the role of director of HV].But that is a reflection of those early days in HV. It was an experiment, a grand one in how to form a community - a transient one - as a retreat center. No one knew how to do it: they made it up as they went along, making use of the junk left by Howe Sound Mining Co. as well as their wits. What they made up and has lasted "the test of time" is now what makes up and informs the HV of today. The Fourth of July parades, Christmas in July, the antics of the first day of school, evening worship, the Craft Cave, the Pot Shop, the Lift, the saunas, movie nights, the museum, trail maintenance, these and others events and activities have become its traditions. Back then there were no traditions. Today's HV accepts new ideas in an orderly fashion, vetting them. Back then it was truly open to creativity and new ideas. In part, today's litigious zeitgeist precludes the kind of willing openness to try the untried that was pervasive 50 years ago. Rules and laws restrict what can be done. Also, a lot of what is new today requires special knowledge and training which generalists of years ago could not have imagined. What Werner did was shepherd all those early experiments and experiences, making sure that what worked continued to work and encouraged further creativity.The memoir begins with Wes Prieb (and appropriately so). It was his stab-in-the-dark (or maybe go-for-broke) letters which showed to Howe Sound there was an interest in the former company town, enough of an interest for them to decide to give it to him (via an organization capable of managing it) after they had sold a boat. Werner portrays Wes as a person without much organizational skills, or much of a source of ideas, but he had a childlike faith and he had a desire to amuse. Once he embraced the idea of running the Village Center basement recreation area, and Werner came up with the moniker "PhD" [Pool hall Director], Wes was in his element. Despite how he made his presence known, whether as the friendly pool hall proprietor or dressed up in one of his many guises, he remained an enigma, never revealing much of who he was.Werner describes his relationships with Gil Berg, the first organizer of HV, the various directors and the HV board. He cherishes the friendships he made with certain guests, volunteers, teaching staff, and village staff. He also made friends with neighbors of the village that lived along upper Lake Chelan, many of whom made great contributions of time and expertise to HV.Werner chronicles what happened in those days, what worked, what didn't. He shows how HV tried to be more youth oriented, then changed when more retirees visited the village. He talks about the Swiss loggers who were in the valley during the 1960s and the person who made the alphorn. He reveals how staffing was accomplished in those days and how so much work was done voluntarily. He describes how the village worked as a summer only program, and later how it transitioned to a year-round program.Werner relates how the hydro plant was installed, the building of the upper diversion dam, the building of the city and river saunas, the new covered footbridge, the installation of the jacuzzi therapy pool, the conversion of Lodge 5 to Koinonia and its later expansion, and much more. In the final chapter, he talks of his life after leaving Holden in 1984, and how his experience led him to be a radio commentator, an elected county PUD board member (one term), and the business manager at Sleeping Lady Mountain Resort. A very full life indeed.There are some minuses with the memoir. Some facts are incorrect; of what I found, they are incidental to what actually happened in HV itself and are therefore minor. [Werner states in his preface that he did little to no fact-checking in preparing the memoir.] The text is often repetitive, sometimes going over things previously covered more than twice. There are some wrong words due to mistyping. A thorough editing could easily clear up these issues.All in all, a fine, informative work, for there is much more in the text than I have described. It is appropriate for those new to HV as well as for people like myself who have a long association with this now large transient community. It certainly brought back for me a lot of memories of the people and of HV itself.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful. Excellent Summer Reading By Dennis R. Murphy I have never been to Holden but I have known the author for several years. There is a New Testament story about Mary and Martha – one concerned with the secular needs of her guests and the other occupied with more sacred concerns. The tension between practical secular needs and the spiritual dimensions of life represented by this story occupy a large part of this memoir.The author is, by education and proclivity, given to solving the many problems of the temporal needs of the Holden community, from engineering challenges to transportation to electric generation and water supply. But he is keenly aware that the community is greater than its physical constructs, and his upbringing as the son of a cleric gives him perhaps the perspective to deal with these tensions.This book is the story of a place for spiritual renewal as well as the practical problems of a very remote location. The author serves both needs and his account is filled with insight and perspectives on both the people and the place. He deals sensitivity with the secular/sacred tensions as well as the personal foibles that challenged the community. It is a well-crafted memoir that I found wonderfully fresh even though I have never been to Holden nor am I part of that tradition.At the end of the movie The Theory of Everything, Hawking and his ex-wife are watching their children in a garden, and he turns to her and says, “Look what we made”. Life for both had moved on but they had created something special. I think this is an apt way to view this book. Time and the author have moved on, but he was part of creating something special – something that has endured. This book should be part of your summer reading.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. The Magic of Holden in a Book By RMA If you have ever experienced the magic of Holden Village, Werner Janssen's memoir provides a depth which only intensifies the mystery of Holden. Richly rooted in history and the colorful characters who made the village what it is, he captures the love and the challenges of this special place. My family was fortunate enough to make Holden our mountain home for a year when I was 11. The impression it made on me was a deep one; I never wanted to leave. I've returned to the village since, and each time the village was transformed - new faculty and staff, but Werner and the Janssen family were there, grounding the village somehow. Werner's stories are both personal and insightful. Thank you for this meaningful gift.
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