Comments on: Kedzie Noble Winnie Writes from Nome, 1912

By: Michele Aalbu

Michele Aalbu — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 03:45:13 +0000

Kedzie Winnie was my great grandfather. He was a fine and noble man who settled in Utah, met his wife and had 7 children. He was obedient to the church until his death.

By: Ray

Ray — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 04:34:45 +0000

What a wonderful post, Ardis, about a wonderful young man.

I hear too much bickering in places about how much we praise the pioneers – and not nearly enough understanding of exactly why we do so. This is a perfect illustration of why we rightly do so.

By: Hunter

Hunter — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 21:57:49 +0000

I liked that phrase, too (“I have found in my experience that it is what we give and what we do that counts for more than what we say”).

It’s a different take on the familiar maxim that you teach a more impactful lesson by what you do than by what you say; it adds that it’s we “give” that counts, too. I like it.

Thanks for this.

By: Mark B.

Mark B. — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 20:07:53 +0000

I wonder if the columns of that Wobbly paper were still open to Bro. Winnie after Joe Hill met his end at the hands of that Mormon state, Utah.

Sorry, Chris, hope that doesn’t spoil that “choked up” feeling.

(A quick glance at Wikipedia shows that Joe Hill was born Joel Hägglund, which does suggest a possible connection with another denizen of the Bloggernacle.)

By: Chris H.

Chris H. — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 18:59:59 +0000

Thanks.

By: Ardis E. Parshall

Ardis E. Parshall — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 18:54:26 +0000

I put great thought into your present this year, Chris, you ol’ leftist, and hope you don’t already have one like it.

By: Chris H.

Chris H. — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 18:50:14 +0000

Ardis,

A post with radical leftists in it on my birthday (with an ETB threadjack, no less). I am going to get choked up.

By: Ardis E. Parshall

Ardis E. Parshall — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:59:30 +0000

Heh, heh, I see that EmJen has picked up that link for today’s Bloggernacle Back Bench. (I should have given a hat tip, by the way, to S. Taylor for sending that link.)

KNWinnie must have been an extraordinary young man. Conclusions like that are straight from his heart, or maybe his mother taught him extraordinarily well.

By: Clark

Clark — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:30:32 +0000

“I have found in my experience that it is what we give and what we do that counts for more than what we say…” I believe this gets to the heart of missionary work.

Re: the threadjack, I had the same thought about the Mormon who helped Trotsky linked in the sidebar.