A Father Supports His Daughter, and a Daughter Honors Her Father and Family—“Memento Mori: Life and Death Moment by Moment” at Alton, Illinois, First Unitarian Church

Over the Labor Day weekend I offered a service at the First Unitarian Church in Alton, Illinois, on the corner of 3rd and Alby. This was my sister Julia Ann Thompson’s church and my cousin Irene Riehl’s church before her. Now it is the church of my niece and her husband and their daughters. My…

“WHEN TRAILS DIVIDE”–a love poem by Erwin A. Thompson

My father wrote this poem for my mother, Ruth Evelyn Johnston Thompson after her death May 1, 2006. You can read more about my mother in “Sweet Little Dove” under “Sightlines: A Poet’s Diary” on this website. by Erwin A. Thompson For Ruth, my faithful partner of the trail for almost sixty-four years. From youth’s…