Wednesday, November 13, 2013

Shameless plug

Ok so I'm totally excited for this upcoming Thanksgiving! Not only is a time for tons of yummy food but a time to spend with family. To most people spending time with family is the norm but sadly not for us. We live so far away from relatives and spend most of our holidays with "just close family". Yep just us! Our own little family...so what a treat to have our families come to us this year!

My house will be filled with great holiday smells, laughter and lots of intriguing and somewhat intimidating conversation. You're probably thinking "oh yay. Family holidays=family fights." Oh no that's not what kind of intimidating conversation I mean. My parents-in-law are both published and Bancroft awarding winning authors. I have the highest respect for them! Probably a little too much respect and admiration to the point I'm a little nervous Nelly in their company.

I love to hearing about their latest projects but always get tongue tied many, many times during our conversations. I just worry how that comes across…ho hum..sigh. I just wish some of their awesomeness will rub off on me. ;0)

Anyway it will be great to have them! And we'll have a great time!

In addition to our family visits, Richard and Claudia agreed to speak about their current writing projects. This will be a very interesting night and hope anyone interested will join us!




page1image896 page1image1592The Bull Mountain Ward
Elders Quorum Presents a Fireside by
Richard and Claudia Bushman
“Telling Our Stories” and “Joseph and Emma”
Richard and Claudia Bushman will be presenting a fireside at the 98th Avenue Building in the Tualatin Stake on December 1, 2013 at 7:00PM. Claudia Bushman will speak on oral history and women in the Church. Richard Bushman will speak about Joseph Smith and the role that Emma Smith played in his life.

Brother Richard L. Bushman is a nationally known history scholar. He is best known in the church as the author of the biography, Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling and a history of the early church titled Joseph Smith and the Beginnings of Mormonism. He has also acted as Co-General Editor of the Joseph Smith Papers. Brother Bushman has held many prestigious academic positions including the Gouverneur Morris Professor of History at Columbia University and the Howard W. Hunter Chair of Mormon Studies at Claremont Graduate University. Besides his work on LDS Church history, he has written many well-known and respected works on early American social, cultural, and political history. He chairs the Board of Directors of the Mormon Scholars Foundation, which fosters the development of young LDS scholars. He has been a seminary teacher, bishop, stake president, and patriarch and is currently a sealer in the Manhattan Temple.

Sister Claudia Bushman is also a scholar and academic. Most recently she collected and edited oral histories of LDS women into a book titled Mormon Women Have Their Say: Essays from the Claremont Oral History
Collection. She has also written several other book about the LDS church:
Mormons in America; Contemporary Mormonism : Latter-day Saints in Modern America; Building the Kingdom of God: a History of Mormons in America. She is also well known for editing Mormon Sisters : Women in Early Utah. She has taught at several universities including the University of Delaware, Columbia University, and Claremont Graduate University. She was named New York State Mother of the Year in 2002.

Together, Brother and Sister Bushman are the parents of six children and twenty grandchildren.