by LoriBenton | Jul 24, 2013 | Uncategorized
“Lori Benton gives us seasons in her debut novel Burning Sky. Seasons of planting corn, beans and pumpkins as backdrops to the ripening and challenges of lives working through chaos after a war and a terrible personal tragedy. [She] gives us seasons of the journey...
by LoriBenton | Jul 18, 2013 | Uncategorized
And he [King Solomon] spake of trees, from the cedar tree that is in Lebanon even unto the hyssop that springeth out of the wall: he spake also of beasts, and of fowl, and of creeping things, and of fishes. 1 Kings 4:33 JKV The 1 Kings passage above...
by LoriBenton | Jul 11, 2013 | Uncategorized
On July 7, 1806, Meriwether Lewis and nine members of the Corps of Discovery ascended to the Continental Divide on their journey east from the Pacific Ocean… On the afternoon of July 6, 2013, my party and I followed in their footsteps. Splitting up the Corp...
by LoriBenton | Jul 3, 2013 | Uncategorized
The 18th century frontier family had much in common with the way Americans live and look at life in the twenty-first century. Getting by these days is challenging on many fronts, requiring more creativity and partnership in a family than often was the case just a...
by LoriBenton | Jun 26, 2013 | Uncategorized
For today’s Research Wednesday post I’m highlighting a wonderful find I came across on line. In 1864, while civil war raged across the United States, a Congregational minister named Elias Hillard set out on a mission to find six men. There was urgency in...
