"Pouring the Sun," is the story of an immigrant woman, Ludvika Moskal, who like the molten metal in a blast furnace is transformed into steel. For Ludvika the fires are many; immigration at 18, raising a family in the poverty of a steel-making city, fear of reprisal for standing up to injustice. Ludvika, her family, the whole steel making community of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, built the great cities of this land.

". . . a story of work and home and love and loss . . .
a rare wine to be savored,"
The Express-Times said of the story.

"[Pouring the Sun] is a visit with the keepers of the blue flame across the generations - the steelworkers of Bethlehem, Pa., who 'poured the sun...'"
America@work

Storytelling World Award!

Press Links:
Shira J. Boss: Christian Science Monitor
K.D. Norris: Express Times
Ted Woelke: The Valley
Mary & Michael Leppert: The Link