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God, the Creator of Self
According to Psalm 139 of the Old Testament, “O Lord, Thou hast proved me, and known me.” This psalm is a wonderful source of essential knowingness, a source of truthfulness, a source in which a person knows God and knows … Continue reading
Why Marxism doesn’t Work
Karl Marx was a German intellectual, philosopher, journalist, and atheist Jew who wrote anti-government publications and radical pamphlets and dense analyses of economic, political, and social philosophy. After being exiled from France, he lived in Britain. His collaborator in his … Continue reading
Katherine (Katie) Florence Perkins (1875-1937) of Pawtucket, Rhode Island: A Single Woman who worked as a bookkeeper, brush-maker, and house-cleaner
Katie Perkins was born in 1875 in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, a small factory city of traditional New Englanders and immigrants from Europe. Her parents were George Henry Perkins of Rhode Island and Margaret Rennie Crawford, an immigrant from Glasgow, Scotland. … Continue reading
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Tagged family-history, genealogy, History of New Engand, women's history
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Diary of Maria Antoinette McCrillis, widow with two young children, living in San Rafael, California, and Moving to Palmyra, Maine in 1876
Maria Antoinette McCrillis was a 24 year old widow with two children from her marriage to James Sullivan Collamore: Eliza, born in 1871, and Edith, born in 1873. James was a carpenter, born in 1838. Maria, nicknamed Nellie, was born … Continue reading
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Tagged Diaries, History of California, History of Maine, women's history
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Diary of a 17-year-old student, Florence Beatrice Brown Phillips, in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, 1917
Florence Beatrice Brown was born August 1, 1899, in Pawtucket Rhode Island to Samuel and Hattie Perkins Brown. She was 17 years old and still a student when she kept this diary for the first three months of 1917. She … Continue reading
History Teacher
I have taught history in a variety of venues for 40 years. I began as a graduate teaching assistant teaching American History Survey at the University of New Hampshire. I taught as an adjunct with the University System of New … Continue reading
Hedonism (and Christianity)
In the book of Acts, 14, 12, the author calls Hermes (the Greek messenger God) the deceiver–hence paganism (that is, a religion based on naturalism, hedonism, superstition) deceives its adherents, even deceives them into thinking men are gods.Hermes is a perfect … Continue reading
A Christmas Memorial
The following is taken from a 19th century English prose and poetry magazine. It is a useful remembrance for those of us who have suffered recent loss of family, friends, or pets. “The sinless soul of the cherub child, that … Continue reading
The Night Before Christmas (A Rodent’s Tale)
I wrote the following whimsical, nutty poem many years ago when my two oldest sons were in elementary school. Every Christmas Eve my family reads this poem along with the traditional Night before Christmas and the Christmas story in the … Continue reading
The Christian Environmentalist
The scientific/modern viewpoint about climate change is that humans can rationally decide to save the environment by implementlng bureaucratic scientific policies based on government programs. But if humans are at base animals they will continue in a survival of fittest, … Continue reading
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