Local Historian Barbara Dowd Wright at Stone Soup This Sunday

Stone Soup Studios, located at 20 W Broad St in Bethlehem, is another one of those iconoclastic shops that make the Christmas City so interesting. But instead of soup, you'll find an assortment of hand-crafted gifts, from ceramic mugs to silk scarves.

This Sunday, at 2 PM, author Barbara Dowd Wright will discuss her novel "An Awakening Heart. "It's described as "the true story of Christina Krause, ancestor of the author, who must confront the fundamental conflict between her faith, and the Moravian religious practice that requires her to relinquish her children."

According to the Moravian Historical Society, communal living as part of the deal in the Colonial era, but was based on economic necessity, not religious zeal.