Title: The Man Who Could Have Been So Much More
Product review: As a historian, Nielsen, who was born in Texas and has some Wendish heritage, often writes about subject matter of which he has some first hand knowledge. Quite apart from his personal ties with this history, however, the story is worth telling-- and he tells it well. Killian was tri-lingual, a theologian, a poet, an intellectual, but he became displaced, trapped, on the Texas frontier. He is remembered as a village pastor, but his parishioners hardly knew what he could have been. Surely such stories were common among immigrants. Some, found it possible to express their genius in new and creative ways. Others felt they had misread the opportunities in this new land and never realized their potential. Both stories are worth reading because both types are found within all of us. And stories like this help us to respect what might have been and decry what was lost, but also to encourage the latent gifts within each of us, whatever our setting and opportunity.
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