Recently I spent an afternoon at the Presbyterian Historical Society in Philadelphia, doing some research for a group bringing an overture to General Assembly, the governing body of the Presbyterian Church (USA). It had been a long time since I’d been in a historical society, but the smell of old paper, the hush of theContinue reading “Digest of Acts”
Author Archives: HMM
Lincoln and New Salem
My blog has been quiet for the few months as I’ve been working on my thesis for my graduate program at Pacific University. My thesis is a portion of a novel set in a fictional town not far from New Salem, Illinois, where Abraham Lincoln spent six years before moving to Springfield to become a lawyer. TheContinue reading “Lincoln and New Salem”