By: Ardis E. Parshall - April 07, 2014 From the Relief Society Magazine, 1961-62 – Because of the Word By Hazel M. Thomson Chapter 1 The brightness of the oaks and maples tried vainly to cheer Ruth Ann Barker as she completed her farm chores. Her eyes looked often toward Boston, a day’s journey to the east, where living had become very gracious in the early eighteen hundreds. It vexed her that her father insisted on remaining in the ...
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