“Around about now, young John Owen comes out of the shack lugging my old musket from the War. At six years of age, our youngest boy already knew his business. Not a word, just brings the shooting iron somewhat closer… — Peter Matthiessen Copy Share Image
“It is he who makes the dams and shuts the flood-gates of corrupted nature so that it cannot break forth in a deluge of abominations to overwhelm the creation with confusion and disorder. That all the earth is not filled… — john owen Copy Share Image