On my eleventh birthday I was finally old enough to join the Boy Scouts Back then Troop 153 was led by Roy Barber a local farmer a Kansas Andy Griffith To my mind he was everything a Scout Master should be My parochial school had no male teachers and I had never bonded with a coach They were

Here are the lyrics to Hank Thompson rsquo s Wild Side of Life In 1952 it was 1 for 15 weeks on Billboard rsquo s Country Charts You wouldn rsquo t read my letter if I wrote you You asked me not to call you on the phone But there rsquo s something I rsquo m wanting to tell you So I wrote it in t

To take in the tumult provoked by the death of Arthur Prince of Wales the first born son of King Henry VII and of his wife Elizabeth of York early in 15th century Tudor England combine the affection currently felt for Prince William with the fear for the future engendered by the death of John K

In 1967 Robert Kennedy went on a fact-finding tour of the Mississippi Delta An eyewitness recalled that he and his party went into one of the worst places I rsquo ve ever seen A dark windowless shack smelling of mildew sickness and urine There was no ceiling hardly the floor had holes in it

Marilynne Robinson rsquo s new collection of essays is entitled When I Was a Child I Read Books Here rsquo s the opening of the title essay When I was a child I read books My reading was indiscriminate I preferred books that were old and thick and hard I made vocabulary lists Surprising as it

Why study the Psalms Henry Wansbrough notes the following Compellingly they were used by Jesus in addressing his Father Martin Luther noted that the entire Bible is contained in the Psalms rdquo The Psalms put our inchoate longings or as St Paul would say groanings into words Wordsworth