Fishers
April 18, 2018(fishing with my son on the Upper Weber) In the last days of summer we walk through tall grass to the river long before the sun spills over the mountains. We cast into morning air. […]
(fishing with my son on the Upper Weber) In the last days of summer we walk through tall grass to the river long before the sun spills over the mountains. We cast into morning air. […]
[…] the text. There were, to be sure, scholars who studied the biblical text as literature, like the English scholar R. G. Moulton at the end of the nineteenth century and the American Nils Lund […]
[…] of the foundation’s preservation plan, and received a special citation from the Mormon History Association in 1983. Reading between the lines from essay to essay, one gleans that Chesterfield is not a typical nineteenth-century […]
[…] the life of the child and of the mature citizen. In his classic essay, “Politics and the English Language,” Orwell condemned foggy language—the dying metaphors, pretentious diction, and meaningless terms used today in the […]
I was anxious to review this biography of the founder of eight nineteenth-century newspapers in and near western Illinois (including the Warsaw Message), the author of The History of Hancock County, and, especially, the […]
[…] trek to Utah, and William Clayton. In his biographical introduction, Allen outlines the life of this 1837 English convert to Mormonism and his career as a clerk, scribe, and recordkeeper. Clayton’s contributions to Mormon […]
Dr. Ellis Reynolds Shipp closed her un published autobiography with the words, “Great minds are they who suffered not in vain. . . . I do not feel my spirit great, but oh, I have…
[…] enjoy the book—appear to be Mormons who are interested in the history of the Church. The uninitiated reader, though, sometimes requires explanations of unique terms which the author does not give. Non Mormons who […]
[…] throws more light on this subject than anything yet produced in or out of the Church” (“Book News on Mormon History,” No. 1 p. 3, issued by Deseret Book Company). Much of Hogan’s effort […]
[…] your norms. We need specialized help in education, specialized help in the formative years, special courses in English. We need counseling, we need equal job opportunities for our graduates; other wise our students will […]