Introduction While looking at the description of Hope Travels Through, I was interested when I found out that it is based on real events that took place in December 1977--a tragic plane crash of the University of Evansville men's basketball team. I had never heard of that tragedy, and I'm surprised since that happened around the time that I was born. So, intrigued, I wanted to read this novel. Hope Travels Through is cut from a different mold from other stories I read, and I like that. Loni ...