She was 34, an English professor at Wellesley College, and had accepted a summer teaching job at Colorado College. Katherine Lee Bates did a tourist kind of thing and climbed to the top of Pike’s Peak. She was so overwhelmed by the view that she wrote this.
Accused of embezzling an Austin, Texas, bank, he first fled to Honduras to evade capture and arrest. But hiding soon consumed so much energy that he gave himself up and was tried and duly convicted. He served three years in prison. When he was released, he had literally nothing except a few personal belongings and 14 stories in his head. One of them would become what is likely the most famous short story in American literature.
The Richmond office of the FBI suspected that certain people might be right-wing terrorists. The agency then asked a Catholic priest to divulge what was told to him in the confessional. He refused, and he himself became a suspect to be watched and spied upon. James Lynch at First Things Magazine has the story.
More Good Reads
America 250
Winning the Ten Crucial Days: The Keys to Victory in George Washington’s Legendary Winter Campaign by David Price – review by Kelsey DeFord ay Journal of the American Revolution.
The Complicated History of David Fanning’s Murderous 1782 Bloody Sabbath Raid – Josh Wheeler at Journal of the American Revolution.
The Cathedral and the Republic – Jon Schaff at Front Porch Republic.
Faith
The Brilliant Apologetic Strategy of the Ancient Church – Michael Kruger at Canon Fodder.
Our Freedom to Work & Worship Depends Upon Religious Liberty Protections – Paul Mueller at the Institute for Faith, Work, & Economics.
Fiction
The Rest is Silence – short story by Brecht De Poortere at The Hudson Review.
American Stuff
The Final Campaign: Grant’s Desperate Race to Complete His Memoirs – Jason Clark at This is the Day.
Poetry
“Woodman, Spare That Tree!”, poem by George Pope Morris – Joseph Bottum at Poems Ancient and Modern.
‘Glocca Morra” by Paul Durcan – Andrew Roycroft at New Grub Street.
“Nothing is enough!,” poem by Laurence Binyon – Sally Thomas at Poems Ancient and Modern.
Writing and Literature
A Life in Fiction – John Wilson at Profrock.
Monsters and the Long Defeat – Ian Olson at Mere Orthodoxy on Tolkien and Beowulf.
Reading with Jane Austen – Joseph Pearce at The Imaginative Conservative.
Some Basics About Writing That I Believe – Dean Wesley Smith.
Culture
Blisters on the Camino de Santiago – Dixie Dillon Lane at Front Porch Republic.
The Old Ones – Brian Miller at Notes from an East Tennessee Farmer.
Why the Revolution Never Ends – Gary Saul Morson at The Free Press.
Montego Bay – Bobby Bloom
Painting: Portrait of the Artist’s Wife Reading, oil on canvas by Ivan Nilkolayvich Kramskoi (1837-1887).
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