Bruce Foster is a native of northern Baltimore County, Maryland, location of his upcoming novel Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye, where he grew up observing the social and cultural milieu of My Lady’s Manor steeplechase country. For fifteen years he has been chief of emergency medicine at a Pennsylvania ...
Hazel Brannon Smith (1914-1994): A Mississippi Baptist Journalist without Honor in Holmes County, MississippiUndoubtedly, her views in 1936 helped ensure that she and her newspaper were accepted in Holmes...Dollar, CharlesBaptist History and Heritage Society...
On Nov. 26, 1845 the newspaper readers of Hancock County, Illinois opened their freshly printed copies of the Warsaw Signal to browse through an article that probably brought a grin (or a smirk) to the faces of many of that locality's non-Mormons: A Spiritual Sister -- Her encounter wi...
He is one of the best known contemporary Florida authors. He was born in Mississippi and moved to Florida in 1966, and has Bachelor and Master degrees in English from the University of Mississippi. Smith is the author of seven novels and two non-fiction books. He is also co-author of th...
The River Indians used it as a highway and as a source of food, and it was they who gave it its name—“misi”meaning“great”and“sipi”meaning“water”.When the length of its branch, the Missouri, is added to it, the Mississippi becomes greater. 71 . From the source of the ...
Mrs. H.: "Many little bodies of new-born children floated down the Mississippi." 60 Mormon Portraits. -- I. Joseph Smith. May 21, 1886, I had a fresh interview with Mrs. Sarah M. Pratt, who had the kindness to give me the following testimony additional to the information given by...
[Courier] news department, many of whom remain my friends after all these years. But my dream [to become a sports reporter] didn’t come true until the Hartford Courant, the second newspaper for which I worked in sports. I could not do so at the Bucks County Courier Times, for the ...
President does not know what hospital he was born in. He was not hatched from an egg. The American Conservative Union in Nov. and Dec. 2008, when to 20 different hospitals in Honolulu County, Hawaii (which included Qeens and Kipaloni Hospitals) ...
On December 28 that same year he intro-duced the Bootsie character to the panel, who continued in the newspaper for severalyears and was published later in the Courier. For forty years Bootsie appeared in blacknewspapers. Harrington was born in the Valhalla community of West Chester County...
The Mississippi was a great highroad, but the interior of the state was a wilderness of trails and rutted lanes. In 1841, on a day when the price of wheat was one dollar a bushel in Chicago, the price in Peoria was forty cents.10 Springfield is but one hundred miles from Nauvoo, ...