Lark's Flight

Lark's Flight is the story chronicling the life of the author Carolyne Lark Swayze, raised during her formative years by her maternal grandparents, James and Rowena Lark. Beginning from the plantations of the Lowcountry of Georgia and South Carolina, for more than forty years, the Larks provided dedicated service to the Mennonite Church. Even as James became the Mennonite's first Black bishop, the organization's alignment with the Jim Crow laws of the Antebellum south belied any notion...
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Lark's Flight is the story chronicling the life of the author Carolyne Lark Swayze, raised during her formative years by her maternal grandparents, James and Rowena Lark. Beginning from the plantations of the Lowcountry of Georgia and South Carolina, for more than forty years, the Larks provided dedicated service to the Mennonite Church. Even as James became the Mennonite's first Black bishop, the organization's alignment with the Jim Crow laws of the Antebellum south belied any notion of racial egalitarianism, and under the hegemony of the Mennonite church, the Larks, as church planters, provided extensive service throughout the United States and Canada among urban Black communities, beginning in Chicago. Acknowledging the suffering of their children, who, like collateral damage, were forced into a world for which they were unmitigatedly ill-equipped, the author addresses their pain directly, and takes readers along on her journey of self-discovery, finally heeding the call that leads her back to the place where it all began; and home.