Sumerian Records

dad fiddling with the rabbit ears on top of the TV, vainly trying to get rid of the snow obscuring the Reds game. There’s the rolled-up, dewdampened morning newspaper lying in our gravel driveway. There’s the hi-fi console in the living room, a few record jackets and dust sleeves (some from my older siblings’ Beatles albums) scattered on the carpet around it. And downstairs, in the musty basement family room, there are the books on the bookshelves— lots of books—with their many-colored spines, each

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implored Joseph Jr. with great passion to continue the project. Lucy Mack Smith, mother of the boys, described the dramatic scene in her book. She also said that, "Alvin Manifested, if such could be the case, greater zeal and anxiety in regard to the Record that had been shown to Joseph, that any of the rest of the family[14];" There was a spiritual kinship existing between Alvin and Joseph because of their common metaphysical gift that was not present among the other sons. Eighteen year old Joseph Jr