tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2645379631135547997.post4675577199180608868..comments2024-03-21T07:58:02.168-05:00Comments on Amateur Mormon Historian: Fletcher Bartlett Hammond of the East Tennessee ConferenceBrucehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01543519825711760773noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2645379631135547997.post-62006931550846169732011-01-03T08:48:31.847-06:002011-01-03T08:48:31.847-06:00Good point Aaron. Journal writing is an art form t...Good point Aaron. Journal writing is an art form that while it should not be too stilted and foreign it still needs to be more than a casual conversation. <br /><br />There are many examples of bad writing today and even back then. A good example is <a href="http://www.keepapitchinin.org/2010/12/28/sister-missionary-1946-48-part-two/" rel="nofollow">Evelyn Taylor's</a>; clear, descriptive and still personal.Brucehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01543519825711760773noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2645379631135547997.post-35834558976933026422011-01-03T06:46:57.961-06:002011-01-03T06:46:57.961-06:00I know this writing style is rather flowery and me...I know this writing style is rather flowery and melodramatic but I much prefer it to the modern missionary messages-were everything is Awesome! Or is this just some Enlish prejudice!aarondavidsonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2645379631135547997.post-35473648931974479812010-12-29T14:00:09.924-06:002010-12-29T14:00:09.924-06:00Indeed. Writing like this is why I never finished ...Indeed. Writing like this is why I never finished P. P. Pratt's autobiography.<br /><br />I have noticed there is a sense that even from their rough background many felt Tennessee was even rougher, if that is a word.Brucehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01543519825711760773noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2645379631135547997.post-48931008492424067182010-12-29T12:14:56.552-06:002010-12-29T12:14:56.552-06:00Writing like this needs to come with a Urim and Th...Writing like this needs to come with a Urim and Thummim -- what's a "meteoric Elder," for instance? And if anybody writes my bio someday saying I have "lived in mortality since ..." I'll come back and haunt him!<br /><br />Still, behind the rhetoric, it's amazing to realize the backgrounds of some missionaries, to think they could have made the transition from such rough frontier lives to become preachers and teachers. And you have to wonder, too, how much that rough background helped them survive the difficulties of a mission, especially one in that time and place.Ardis E. Parshallhttp://www.keepapitchinin.orgnoreply@blogger.com