Comments on: Territorial Library: European History; Asiatic and African History

By: John Mansfield

John Mansfield — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 15:18:00 +0000

I was reading about the Pitcairn folks a few weeks ago, and though they all joined the Seventh-day Adventists in the 1890s, their recent history unfortunately screams “Warren Jeffs” to any who have heard of him. In 2004, half a dozen leading men on the island were convicted for raping dozens of 12-year-old girls. They tried to pass this off as an accepted custom of the island over which the courts had no jurisidiction.

By: Ardis E. Parshall

Ardis E. Parshall — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 23:47:41 +0000

… and doing handcart reenactments of the way we pulled our babies and household goods across the waves to get there!

By: Researcher

Researcher — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 23:14:09 +0000

The obvious destination would undoubtedly have been the Sandwich Islands. Just think…we could all be surfing and drinking pineapple smoothies.

By: Ardis E. Parshall

Ardis E. Parshall — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 22:16:04 +0000

Mutiny on the Bounty meets the Mormon pioneers.

Now there’s the germ of an alternative history if I ever saw one. It could spring out of the eastern press’s certainty that the Mormons were at the end of the Utah War and were headed to some Pacific island — the editors who were so sure of our abandonment of the Tops of the Mountains never got around to naming that island or suggesting how the tens of thousands of our people were supposed to get there, but those picky details can be worked out by our novelist.

By: Researcher

Researcher — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 21:53:12 +0000

What would a classical library be without a set of Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (6 vols)? I find the list of Asiatic and African materials very fascinating. Half of the collection (15/30) pertains to the Near East (if you can stretch the Near Eastern region to fit Nubian Abyssinia). And the copy of Pitcairn Island and Its Inhabitants? Mutiny on the Bounty meets the Mormon pioneers.