I'm noticing that various Biblical references are coming up, so I'm going to take the liberty of tagging some of your posts to connect those references, and here's another one...
In Nick Lichter's book about his journey down the river, The Road of Souls, he describes a plaque in Itasca State Park that commemorates the first sermon preached at the headwaters, in May 1881, by a Reverend Joseph A. Gilfillan, who had traveled "through sixty miles of wilderness from White Earth, Minnesota to conduct the ceremony." Lichter, page 6
The text he preached on was "then had thy peace been as a river." (from Isaiah 48:18)
The idea of speaking about PEACE in the context of the history of Native Americans in this region for the previous fifty years (at least?) is pretty ripe, no?!
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Yes, excellent idea - do retag as and when something new emerges! And the sermon in the headwaters is really interesting. Perhaps we need a kind of list of prompts as we travel along to remind us to look for examples of certain kinds of material: place names, biblical quotations, etc.
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