Richard H Allen

The cross of Christ represents the spiritual, physical, and metaphoric reasons for our existence. Old Testament scripture foreshadows Christ and his sacrifice at the cross. New Testament scripture reiterates that Old Testament vision as we are led to the singularly most significant event in the history of mankind. At the Cross is a line-by-line examination of the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John as these apostles describe events from the Garden...

In the fall of 1841, Vermonter Reed Brown set out on a two-month odyssey with two goals: to obtain a patent for his improved carriage springs, and to assist his brother Nathaniel, in jail in Ohio. Reed kept a journal that chronicles the dangers and difficulties, as well as some of the pleasures, of travel in that time. He experienced: a steamboat explosion, a rail car derailment, hours of a bone-jarring stagecoach ride, delightful encounters with...

Biography of Civil War veteran Truman Naramore who was captured at Craig's Meeting House during the Battle of the Wilderness. After surviving imprisonment at Andersonville, Naramore returned to Vermont to become a successful farmer, businessman, and inventor, eventually migrating to California and its real estate boom.