“In all three, Lewis modeled his main character, Ransom, after Tolkien and, by That Hideous Strength, Charles Williams.” – Bradley Birzer, “C.S. Lewis: The Space Trilogy.”
It wasn’t only Paul Revere and William Dawes who carried the news that the British were coming. Playing almost equally important roles were Samuel Prescott, Abel Benson, Jonathan Fisher, and Ebenezer Doolittle. Read The Forgotten Midnight Riders by Charlton Allen at American Thinker.
As many times as we’ve been to London, one area we’ve visited during every trip (including way back in 1983) was Piccadilly – the Ritz Hotel, Fortnum & Mason, the Royal Academy, Waterstones and Hatcherd’s bookstores, he Library of London, and the Burlington Arcade, to mention a few of its establishments. But if Piccadilly has a heart, then it’s St. James Piccadilly and its churchyard, along with the square a block behind it. Nearly every morning, I did early walks (while someone else was still sleeping), and inevitably found myself walking through the square, the side streets, and the churchyard. This past Monday, A London Inheritance featured St. James and the surrounding area, and I enjoyed every word and photograph.
More Good Reads
Writing and Literature
Mark Twain, Edison Film Digitally Remastered – George Odell.
The Quiet Collapse of Reading – and the Only Real Solution – Joel Miller at Miller’s Book Review.
Breakthrough: Ross Macdonald, Lew Archer and the Doomsters – Bruce Riordan at CrimeReads.
America 250
How a Pittsfield tavern contributed to America’s first offensive victory of the Revolutionary War – Lauren Dorsey at The Berkshire Eagle.
A Granddaughter’s Grief: Eleanor Parke Custis Lewis and George Washington – Elizabeth Reese at Journal of the American Revolution.
Colonel Michael Kovats: The Hungarian Co-Founder of the American Cavalry – Journal of the American Revolution.
How the Thirteen Colonies Tried—and Failed—to Convince Canada to Side with Them During the American Revolution– Eli Wizevich at Smithsonian Magazine.
Faith
Is This Really a Good Idea? – Tim Challies.
Are Children a Blessing? A Response to Declining Birthrates and a Crisis of Meaning – Jonathan Threlfall.
People expect it to be churchy – Stephen Kneale at Building Jerusalem.
American Stuff
President Lincoln’s Disastrous First Month – James McPherson at American Heritage.
Nathaniel Lyon’s River Campaign of 1861: Securing Missouri for the Union by Kenneth Burchett – Civil War Books and Authors.
Book Review: The First Day at Gettysburg, July 1, 1863 by James Hessler – Peter Miele at Emerging Civil War.
Life and Culture
Bobwhite – Jared Phillips at Front Porch Republic.
G.K. Chesterton & the Useless Things – John Howting at The Imaginative Conservative.
American Colleges Are Building a New Elite – John Mac Ghlionn at the James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal.
Poetry
“When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer,” poem by Walt Whitman – Sally Thomas at Poems Ancient and Modern.
Drafting – Lee Kiblinger at Rabbit Room Poetry.
Close and Slow: ‘Cain’ by Anne Stevenson – Andrew Roycroft at New Grub Street.
“Morituri Salutamus,” poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow – Joseph Bottum at Poems Ancient and Modern.
Gratitude – Brandon Lake, cover by Genevieve Linkowski
Painting: Old Woman Reading, oil on canvas (1959) by Boris Ivanovich Kopylov (1931-1991).
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