Miss utah biography of george




  • Miss utah biography of george
  • 2022.

    ON POSSESSION OF BOOKS

    Address given by Marilyn Taggart Giles (John-Charles Wallace Jr.-Charles Wallace-Fanny)
    on 8/24/96 at GWT Reunion

    "A good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life." John Milton

    I have a peculiar childhood memory that I return to again and again for comfort like a thumb or a friendly blanket.

    Miss utah biography of george

  • Salt Lake City
  • 2022
  • Miss utah 2006
  • Miss utah usa
  • This memory is a vivid recollection in an otherwise dim part of my childhood, and I make regular mental pilgrimages to one particular scene. In it I am three or four, newly bathed, still sticky wet, engulfed only in a towel and I run down a hardwood floor hall to the living room.

    I reach for a music box, wind it, and to the tune of the Blue Danube, I laboriously haul a massive twenty pound book onto my lap as I clamber into an oversized armchair. I open this encyclopedic wonder, leaf past the entries on countries, burn treatments and hog husbandry to a small well-worn and loved section de