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Show MADELYN CANNON STEWART SILVER 172 and His Brothers, and Tonio Kroger. There were several talks on the history of Colorado and Denver. As for the Jane Herrick Literary Club, to which Madelyn was devoted, in 1939-40 Madelyn outlined a course of study on the place of biography in literature. They discussed Plutarch's Lives, the Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau, Pepys' Diary, Daniel Boone by Bakeless, and biographies of Katherine Cornell and Booker T. Washington. They ended with the life of Eliza R. Snow, which was the first Mormon item the club had reviewed. In 1941 Madelyn also gave a lesson on Writers of the Day. In 1942, with the war on, they went through a series of les early America: Home life in the Colonies, the kitchen fireside, meat and drink, early stage coaches, old time taverns, and merchants and peddlers. They made cookies for the Service Men's Center in Denver and took turns in serving lunch each Sunday to servicemen. They bought war bonds and gave them to the Denver 1st Ward as a contribution to the ward building fund. Lessons in 1945 were on the history and culture of nations: England, France, Italy, China, and Africa, each time with a book about the country or one of its people. In the "amateur" a Little Old Garden" program in May 1945 the club sang "In with lyrics for the solos and trio by Madelyn. The lessons for 1945-46 were on the short story, beginning with a sketch of the life of Edgar Allen Poe by Madelyn during sons on which she read "The Purloined Letter." The years 1947 and 1948 were "special" for the members of the club: Utah was celebrating the centennial of the Mormon entrance into the Salt Lake Valley in 1847, and Colorado was celebrating the centennial of The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo that transferred to the United States all of the basin north of the Gila River. There were meetings devoted to Mormon and Utah and literature in 1947 and on Colorado history and lit history Madelyn was especially pleased, at the February 21, 1947 meeting when her own children performed and as a string trio: Elizabeth on the cello, Barnard at the piano, erature in 1948. Judith on the violin. Pioneer costumes were worn at their "ere 'ative " meeting in May, with each member giving a pioneer |
