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☆ The Desolate Wilderness
  + stars: | 2023-11-21 | by ( ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Landing Pilgrims Plymouth Massachusetts December 22nd 1620H ere beginneth the chronicle of those memorable circumstances of the year 1620, as recorded by Nathaniel Morton , keeper of the records of Plymouth Colony, based on the account of William Bradford , sometime governor thereof:So they left that goodly and pleasant city of Leyden, which had been their resting-place for above eleven years, but they knew that they were pilgrims and strangers here below, and looked not much on these things, but lifted up their eyes to Heaven, their dearest country, where God hath prepared for them a city (Heb. XI, 16), and therein quieted their spirits.
Persons: Nathaniel Morton, William Bradford Organizations: Plymouth Colony Locations: Plymouth Massachusetts, Leyden, Heb
☆ ‘Master of Light’ Review: From Prison to a Palette
  + stars: | 2022-11-16 | by ( John Anderson | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
“If his talent doesn’t grab your attention, his story will,” says a newscaster heard in the background during “Master of Light”: George Anthony Morton , young, black and formerly incarcerated, paints in the style of the 17th-century Dutch Masters. As local news goes, it’s a producer’s dream. As documentary film fodder, it’s not bad either, though the story is far more complicated than the teaser for a TV news feature. Mr. Morton, now in his late 30s, was sentenced in his 20s to more than 11 years for possession of crack cocaine; he was born to a drug-addicted mother who had been born to a drug-addicted mother.
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