****Walt & Eileen Petersen**: Traces of Time . . . April 29-May 5, 2024

Thursday, May 2, 2024

Traces of Time . . . April 29-May 5, 2024

Traces of Time . . . .

{Last week: Scroll to end and click "Older Posts" at bottom right.)

Dedicated to our seven children--Janie, Gary, Steve, David, Julie, Brian, Jen, their spouses, our 39 grandchildren, 9 spouses married to our grandchildren, 6 great-grandchildren.
So our posterity now numbers 67.
THIS WEEK

APRIL 29-MAY 5, 2024

I still need to finish last week's post.

MONDAY, APRIL 29, 2024
Family is Everything...

Sunrise: 6:29 a.m...

Sunset: 8:20 p.m.

...Part of this week...

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TUESDAY, APRIL 30**, 2024

Family is Everything...
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Lori Lyn and Betsy teach

the course of Instruction:
"Women in the Scriptures"

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WEDNESDAY, MAY 1, 2024

    Family is Everything...
May 2024 - Hope you all have a wonderful, fantastic birthday!
02 - ___ Taylor - " 2"  {Kelsey & Josh's son}
16 - Michael Fisher "21"
21 - Maddie - "17"
21-Grampa Bide Prescott's Remembrance 1884-1943 "69"
Family Book Club

Book Description
A dramatic account of Paul Revere's Ride that uses this one famous incident to offer deep insight into the outbreak of the revolution and the birth of the American republic. - 1994
1.   Listening Length
12 hours and 52 minutes
2.   Author
David Hackett Fischer
3.   Narrator
Paul Boehmer
4.   Audible release date
June 6, 2017
English
Publisher's summary
Paul Revere's midnight ride looms as an almost mythical event in American history - yet it has been largely ignored by scholars and left to patriotic writers and debunkers. In Paul Revere's Ride, David Hackett Fischer fashions an exciting narrative that offers deep insight into the outbreak of revolution and the emergence of the American republic. Beginning in the years before the eruption of war, Fischer illuminates the figure of Paul Revere, a man far more complex than the simple artisan and messenger of tradition. When the alarm riders took to the streets, they did not cry, "The British are coming", for most of them still believed they were British. Within a day many began to think differently. For George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, and Thomas Paine, the news of Lexington was their revolutionary Rubicon.
What does Rubicon mean?
a bounding or limiting line
Rubicon • \ROO-bih-kahn\ • noun. : a bounding or limiting line; especially : one that when crossed commits a person irrevocably.
Paul Revere's Ride returns Paul Revere to center stage in these critical events, capturing both the drama and the underlying developments in a triumphant return to narrative history at its finest.
©1994 David Hackett Fischer (P)2017 Tantor
Unabridged Audiobook
Categories: History
·         Paul Revere's Ride Paperback - April 19, 1995
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Paul Revere’s Ride
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow**
LISTEN, my children, and you shall hear
Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere,
On the eighteenth of April, in Seventy-five;
Hardly a man is now alive
Who remembers that famous day and year.
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He said to his friend, “If the British march
By land or sea from the town to-night,
Hang a lantern aloft in the belfry arch
Of the North Church tower as a signal light, —
One, if by land, and two, if by sea;
And I on the opposite shore will be,
Ready to ride and spread the alarm
Through every Middlesex village and farm,
For the country folk to be up and to arm.”
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Then he said, “Good night!” and with muffled oar
Silently rowed to the Charlestown shore,
Just as the moon rose over the bay,
Where swinging wide at her moorings lay
The Somerset, British man-of-war;
A phantom ship, with each mast and spar
Across the moon like a prison bar,
And a huge black hulk, that was magnified
By its own reflection in the tide.
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Meanwhile, his friend, through alley and street,
Wanders and watches with eager ears,
Till in the silence around him he hears
The muster of men at the barrack door,
The sound of arms, and the tramp of feet,
And the measured tread of the grenadiers,
Marching down to their boats on the shore.
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Then he climbed the tower of the Old North Church,
By the wooden stairs, with stealthy tread,
To the belfry-chamber overhead,
And startled the pigeons from their perch
On the sombre rafters, that round him made
Masses and moving shapes of shade, —
By the trembling ladder, steep and tall,
To the highest window in the wall,
Where he paused to listen and look down
A moment on the roofs of the town,
And the moonlight flowing over all.
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Beneath, in the churchyard, lay the dead,
In their night-encampment on the hill,
Wrapped in silence so deep and still
That he could hear, like a sentinel’s tread,
The watchful night-wind, as it went
Creeping along from tent to tent,
And seeming to whisper, “All is well!”
A moment only he feels the spell
Of the place and the hour, and the secret dread
Of the lonely belfry and the dead;
For suddenly all his thoughts are bent
On a shadowy something far away,
Where the river widens to meet the bay, —
A line of black that bends and floats
On the rising tide, like a bridge of boats.
xxx
Meanwhile, impatient to mount and ride,
Booted and spurred, with a heavy stride
On the opposite shore walked Paul Revere.
Now he patted his horse’s side,
Now gazed at the landscape far and near,
Then, impetuous, stamped the earth,
And turned and tightened his saddle-girth;
But mostly he watched with eager search
The belfry-tower of the Old North Church,
As it rose above the graves on the hill,
Lonely and spectral and sombre and still.
And lo! as he looks, on the belfry’s height
A glimmer, and then a gleam of light!
He springs to the saddle, the bridle he turns,
But lingers and gazes, till full on his sight
A second lamp in the belfry burns!
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A hurry of hoofs in a village street,
A shape in the moonlight, a bulk in the dark,
And beneath, from the pebbles, in passing, a spark
Struck out by a steed flying fearless and fleet:
That was all! And yet, through the gloom and the light,
The fate of a nation was riding that night;
And the spark struck out by that steed, in his flight,
Kindled the land into flame with its heat.
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He has left the village and mounted the steep,
And beneath him, tranquil and broad and deep,
Is the Mystic, meeting the ocean tides;
And under the alders that skirt its edge,
Now soft on the sand, now loud on the ledge,
Is heard the tramp of his steed as he rides.
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It was twelve by the village clock,
When he crossed the bridge into Medford town.
He heard the crowing of the cock,
And the barking of the farmer’s dog,
And felt the damp of the river fog,
That rises after the sun goes down.
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It was one by the village clock,
When he galloped into Lexington.
He saw the gilded weathercock
Swim in the moonlight as he passed,
And the meeting-house windows, blank and bare,
Gaze at him with a spectral glare,
As if they already stood aghast
At the bloody work they would look upon.
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It was two by the village clock,
When he came to the bridge in Concord town.
He heard the bleating of the flock,
And the twitter of birds among the trees,
And felt the breath of the morning breeze
Blowing over the meadows brown.
And one was safe and asleep in his bed
Who at the bridge would be first to fall,
Who that day would be lying dead,
Pierced by a British musket-ball.
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You know the rest. In the books you have read,
How the British Regulars fired and fled, —
How the farmers gave them ball for ball,
From behind each fence and farm-yard wall,
Chasing the red-coats down the lane,
Then crossing the fields to emerge again
Under the trees at the turn of the road,
And only pausing to fire and load.
So through the night rode Paul Revere;
And so through the night went his cry of alarm
To every Middlesex village and farm, —
A cry of defiance and not of fear,
A voice in the darkness, a knock at the door,
And a word that shall echo forevermore!
For, borne on the night-wind of the Past,
Through all our history, to the last,
In the hour of darkness and peril and need,
The people will waken and listen to hear
The hurrying hoof-beats of that steed,
And the midnight message of Paul Revere.
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From The Complete Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 1903
Want to know more about Longfellow’s poem and how Revere’s legacy developed and changed over time? Listen to this episode of Ben Franklin’s World titled “Paul Revere’s Ride through History” to hear from historians about how our understanding of Revere has changed over the centuries.
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Lunch Bunch was at
La Fountain
Lunch Bunch

Lunch Bunch
Lunch Bunch
13 gals were able to come...

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Gary took me to Isaac's play:
"The Elephant's Graveyard"
It was very sad...and even
sadder when I found out
it was a true story.

After, Gary took me to supper
at Culver's.
Thank you, Gary.
I always love to see Isaac in his plays at
Timpanogos High School.

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THURSDAY, MAY 2, 2024

Family is Everything…
Ogden's 25th Street
got an award for best
Main Street revival.

This fb post by Nancy Blauer
struck me as very funny.

FRIDAY, MAY 3, 2024

Family is Everything…
Today...

Thank you for cutting
my hair today, Natalie.
New Air Force A.I.
piloted plane shown for
first time.

Scary stuff...

SATURDAY,  MAY 4, 2024
Family is Everything...
nnnnnnnnnnnnnnbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbv

I love
"May the Fourth Be With You" ...
because "The Force that I have always associated from Yoda and Star Wars is...
... The Force of the Light of Christ. which is the most powerful force in the Universe...
...the force that created our world, and worlds without number...
...the force that created you and me...
That's the Force that we want
to be with each one of you!
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Isaac performed at the
Eccles Theater in downtown
Salt Lake City at the State
finals in the Utah High School
Musical Theater Awards**...

Gary drove Steve and me to
downtown Salt Lake where we
had supper at P.F. Chang's.

--Gourmet...;

Chinese food...

...at its best!
...We then drove over to the
George S. & Dolores Dore Eccles Theatre.
George Eccles was the President of
First Security Bank when I was hired
right out of Business College as a
secretary in his Executive Suite.

His secretary had to leave one
afternoon and asked me to sit at
her desk and take his calls.

Was I nervous? Terrified is more
like it! But I didn't do anything
to cause a run on the bank.
{I was age 19.}
Description of Eccles Theatre

The George S. and Dolores Doré Eccles Theater is located in Salt Lake City, Utah. It was opened in 2016. It hosts touring Broadway shows, concerts, and other entertainment events. The primary "Delta Performance Hall" seats 2,468 people, while a smaller black box theater seats 150-250 people. Wikipedia
Address: 131 S Main St, Salt Lake City, UT 84111
Capacity: 2,468
Opened: October 21, 2016
Phone: (385) 468-1010
Construction cost: $119 million

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MICHAEL BALLAM - FOUNDING GENERAL DIRECTOR

Isaac Petersen in top 11 actors in 60 participating Utah High Schools. He performed at the Eccles Theatre downtown Salt Lake City Saturday night, May 4.  Isaac Petersen – George Nowack (Timpanogos High School) Play: “She Loves Me”   He was great!
Isaac with Emily and Mia who are in drama with
him at Timpanogos High School and accepted an
award for their High School at this event.

We were excited to be with and
support Isaac at this
prestigious state-wide event.

SUNDAY,  MAY 5**, 2024
Family is Everything...

Short History of Cinco de Mayo

"Cinco de Mayo is not Mexico's Independence Day," ..."September 16, is Mexico Independence Day.
Cinco de Mayo, or the fifth of May, is a holiday that celebrates the Mexican army’s victory over France at the Battle of Puebla on May 5, 1862 during the Franco-Mexican War.

Now I know what Cinco de Mayo is

celebrated for.

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Sunday

Saratoga Springs 3rd Ward

Fast & Testimony Meeting

3rd Anniversary of Roger Cheney

being called as Bishop.

Dave Jones gave a tender

closing prayer

11 Testimonies were shared

Julie shared a wonderful testimony about

Jacee experiencing being in another

country and seeing the people happy

there.**

Gospel Doctrine class was taught
by Clyde Witham

At the end of this May 5th,
I pray you have had a
restful , peaceful, and spiritual
Sabbath Day...
I share these truths as my testimony to you...

Heavenly Father lives and knows us each by name. He loves us and wants us to return to Him and Heavenly Mother when we leave this mortal existence.
He loves us just
as we are at this very moment.
He knows what our potential is.
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Jesus Christ came to earth as The Only Begotten of the Father and fulfilled the Atonement. He is the Redeemer of all.
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I am thankful for the guidance of the Holy Ghost as the third member of the Godhead.
Walt said to me once: "I look forward to thanking the Holy Ghost in person when I get to Heaven. I don't think we give Him enough credit for all He does."

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Joseph Smith was foreordained to be the Prophet of the Restoration. He is the Restorer of all things.
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President Russell M. Nelson is the Living Prophet today for all the world.
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The Bible is "the Word of God as far as it is translated correctly" and is a Testament of the Divinity of Jesus Christ.
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The Book of Mormon is the Word of God and is Another Testament of Jesus Christ. It is the most correct book of any book on earth.
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The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is the True Church on the earth today. Because of the restored Temple Ordinances families can be sealed for eternity.

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Of these truths I testify in the Name of Jesus Christ, amen.
Eileen Petersen
May 5, 2024

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Next week MAY 6-12, 2024
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Traces of Time . . . .

{Last week: Scroll to end and click "Older Posts" at bottom right.} Dedicated to our seven children--Janie, Gary, Steve, David, Julie, Brian, Jen, their spouses, our 39 grandchildren, 9 spouses married to our grandchildren, 7 great-grandchildren.

So our posterity now numbers 67.
THIS WEEK

MAY 5-12, 2024

MONDAY, MAY 6, 2024
Family is Everything...

Sunrise: 8:20 p.m.
Sunset
...this Monday

Part of last week to compare to...
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Copy info about bees and honey

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TUESDAY, MAY 7, 2024**

Family is Everything...
Institute

Lori Lyn Regas and Betsy Jones and sometimes
Karen Lesser teach

the course of Instruction:
"Women in the Scriptures"

WEDNESDAY, MAY 8, 2024

Family is Everything...
May - Hope you all have a wonderful, fantastic birthday!
02 - ___ Taylor - " 2" {Kelsey & Josh's son}
16 - Michael Fisher "21"
21 - Maddie - "17"
21-Grampa Bide Prescott's Remembrance 1884-1943 "69"

Lunch Bunch was at

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Movie Night with Gary...

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THURSDAY, MAY 9**, 2024

Family is Everything…
Today

FRIDAY,  MAY 10, 2024
Family is Everything…
day

SATURDAY,  MAY 11, 2024
Family is Everything...
at

SUNDAY,  MAY 12, 2024
Family is Everything...

At the end of this May 12th,
I pray you have had a
restful , peaceful, and spiritual
Sabbath Day...
I share these truths as my testimony to you...

Heavenly Father lives and knows us each by name. He loves us and wants us to return to Him and Heavenly Mother when we leave this mortal existence.
He loves us just
as we are at this very moment.
He knows what our potential is.
* * *
Jesus Christ came to earth as The Only Begotten of the Father and fulfilled the Atonement. He is the Redeemer of all.
* * *
I am thankful for the guidance of the Holy Ghost as the third member of the Godhead.
Walt said to me once: "I look forward to thanking the Holy Ghost in person when I get to Heaven. I don't think we give Him enough credit for all He does."

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Joseph Smith was foreordained to be the Prophet of the Restoration. He is the Restorer of all things.
* * *
President Russell M. Nelson is the Living Prophet today for all the world.
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The Bible is "the Word of God as far as it is translated correctly" and is a Testament of the Divinity of Jesus Christ.
* * *
The Book of Mormon is the Word of God and is Another Testament of Jesus Christ. It is the most correct book of any book on earth.
* * *
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is the True Church on the earth today. Because of the restored Temple Ordinances families can be sealed for eternity.

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Of these truths I testify in the Name of Jesus Christ, amen.
Eileen Petersen
May 12, 2024

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Next week MAY 13-19, 2024

MONDAY, MAY 13, 2024

Family is Everything.. Sunrise: 6: a.m.

Sunset: 8: p.m.
...this Monday

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