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It is Provost, Like Provost of a College

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  It is Provost, Like Provost of a College             Before anyone attempts to pronounce my last name, I remind them it sounds like a college administrator. It did not use to be Provost; rather, it was Prevost. [1] My paternal family name is French, and my grandfather was a genealogist who found descendants that trace back to the 1500s. Nonetheless, Leander Provost, my great-great-grandfather, was the first Provost to immigrate from Quebec to Holyoke, Massachusetts, sometime between 1861 and 1880 . [2] Not long after, my great-grandfather, Leo Provost was born in 1883. [3] My grandfather left me a letter after his death providing a sufficient amount of information on our family history. He stated that his father was a short but tough man that lived well into the 1970s. He worked at a shoe store making ends meet for his 11 children; in that time, he only had two boys, one dying at 56. The other was his youngest child Rich...
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“Honor Thy Father”

  “Honor Thy Father”             In recent years there have been numerous attempts to delegitimize the United States' founding based as some have claimed it was rooted in class struggle and racism. Both Howard Zinn and journalist Nicole Hannah-Jones, are guilty of historical malpractice. Without attempting to consolidate sources, they made up their thesis before their research. Nonetheless, they convince their followers to question the origin of the United States. They are right to question events in the past, as there are many warts, and no person ought to ignore the United States' sins. Does this mean its citizens reject its past? Do the children reject their parents after being wronged? Reverend William Ives Budington provides a sermon that answers these difficult questions. The United States origins come from Christianity, but as the bible requires, the child must always respect their father and father's care.  ...
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