Comments on: A Daughter of Martha: Chapter 6

By: Chocolate on my Cranium

Chocolate on my Cranium — Sat, 12 May 2012 05:28:59 +0000

I was caught up in having to pit the raisins….

By: Mina

Mina — Fri, 11 May 2012 23:53:42 +0000

Well this is good:

The schools were free! Blessed freedom of statehood. All children were equal in the public schools, even the books were provided. All children had to do was study. They learned to read, to paint, to cipher, to spell, they even had a little dancing. Imagine, spending money to teach how to dance! They taught music — down town there was a free library. Peter brought books home for the girls. It cost nothing. The door was open to rich and poor alike.

Please, please, please bring this kind of world back…

By: Juli

Juli — Fri, 11 May 2012 22:19:43 +0000

I’m also floundering through the anesthesia-induced dream… since Gloria married and moved away, have we heard nothing more about her brothers and mother? Why haven’t they been around? JERKS. Gloria made so many socks for them.

By: kevinf

kevinf — Fri, 11 May 2012 21:51:14 +0000

I think I have a root canal scheduled somewhere between episodes 7 and 8. Looking forward to it.

By: Ardis E. Parshall

Ardis E. Parshall — Fri, 11 May 2012 21:46:00 +0000

Poor, poor Sister Stone!

This is an 8-parter, so you have TWO MORE WHOLE episodes to look forward to. Much cheaper than narcotics, I suspect.

By: kevinf

kevinf — Fri, 11 May 2012 21:42:20 +0000

Okay now I have read it. Your comment, Ardis, about a dream while coming out of anesthesia, does not do this justice. I think Ms. Stone might have been channeling Ken Kesey or Timothy Leary before they were, well, doing whatever they were doing.

I’m wondering what the Relief Society sisters of the time were supposed to make of this? I’ll bet the correlation committee has copies of this posted on the walls of their conference rooms, with the headline “Only You can Prevent This from happening again!”

Shades of Edgar Allen Poe or H. P. Lovecraft here with the melted wax flowers, the degeneration of the Whitman property into disrepair and decay. I’m with you all that I am not going back to look for where the second section of land came from, but I suspect that it had something to do with the lack of a good editor, or rather even a bad editor.

Now I really am thinking, “Make it stop!” Only one more episode, hopefully?

I will also note that the Mormon Literature Database at BYU does not mention this story as part Sister Stone’s body of work. Oh, wait, Mormon Literature. Now I get it!

By: Tiffany

Tiffany — Fri, 11 May 2012 21:20:07 +0000

As long as Claire isn’t left behind on the farm again, I’m good with all of the craziness!

By: kevinf

kevinf — Fri, 11 May 2012 21:09:26 +0000

I haven’t even read it yet, and I just want to say “Whee!” I’ll comment more later.

By: Ardis E. Parshall

Ardis E. Parshall — Fri, 11 May 2012 21:04:57 +0000

Frankly, I don’t remember the second section of land, either! I do remember the gravel, something about a point/hill rather than a pit, that would come in useful some day if the railroad came through that direction, but I don’t care enough, either, to go back and hunt up the second section. It’s like trying to make sense of a dream you have while coming out of anesthesia.

By: lindberg

lindberg — Fri, 11 May 2012 20:35:43 +0000

Did I miss something? Where did the second section of land and the gravel pit come from?

I guess I could go back and re-read and try to make some sense of it all… but really, what’s the point?