The Spirit of ’76
April 2, 2018[…] said. “Now, Hewlett, I know you like being in here but the building is closed right now. Today is Saturday. Tomorrow you are more than welcome to come back when we hold our services.” […]
[…] said. “Now, Hewlett, I know you like being in here but the building is closed right now. Today is Saturday. Tomorrow you are more than welcome to come back when we hold our services.” […]
[…] in a nickel, a dime, or maybe even a quarter. A dime bought a loaf of b read in those days. David lived three blocks up from the railroad yards. Hobos knocked on his […]
[…] his writing. Here he stored back issues of Look, Life, National Geographic, Time, and the Utah Deseret News; here also were samples of rocks and ore he had collected during his prospecting days in the […]
[…] would be sent up soon. There was no need for them to go down there. With the news, arrangements had to be made. There was no getting around it. They had wanted everything to […]
[…] It was indeed a miracle. He still sat on the sidewalk, as dismal and smoggy as an English day. But at the end of each leg was affixed a glossy pink doll’s foot. In […]
[…] she was tired of his silly business ventures and waiting to have his children. She was leaving. Today. She had the cat and all she needed. And that was that. And there he was, […]
[…] had yet to burst over this side of town. That’s what Bart had expected from his wife today—that she’d be home by now. He thought she’d finish with the bishop as fast as humanly […]
[…] n’t sure what “magistrates” were. But it was a cool word—almost as cool as “principalities.” My family read the scriptures together regularly, and I had very much embraced the faux-King James language of the […]
[…] . Upon entering mortality, the spirit-man “mounts” this, as yet, undisciplined animal for the purpose of “ breaking it” to his own will and making it his servant. As before, if Turner is describing […]
[…] that the specific solutions he proposed flow from some fundamental propositions about politics which remain as valid today as they were in 1844. I shall try to suggest what those propositions are and leave […]