Sunday morning, I am going to spend some time this morning reading about Harriet Beecher Stowe and the reasons why she wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin. When Abe Lincoln met her he told her that she was the reason for the Civil War. It's Sunday and I want to spend some time thinking of something lofty, rather than the mundane of writing a book.
But I am most privileged to be able to say that I have known so many famous people in my work at the University. I am including a picture of my predecessor, Hattie Eicholtz, who was there for years before me and she introduced me to all kinds of people--several worked on the atomic bomb mission and I have known--Marvin Wilkening, Marlin Remley who flipped the switch that awful day, on and on. Seven people from Dexter went out and worked on it. That is a story that I should write one day. Hattie was a chore but the stories she told me I later found out were listening to.
So was the story written by Harriet Beecher Stowe. Back at it after a read.
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