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    The bike picnic, Bedford [picture] /

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    Title from caption.; In: Sketches of facts & fancy, drawings of horses and scenes of travel.; Part of the Richard Wingfield Stuart sketchbooks.; Condition: Good.; Also available in an electronic version via the Internet at: http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-vn3769492-s18; Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts program by Mary Collom, 2006. Watercolour drawing of two men and a woman having a rest after a bicycle ride

    No. 687 Drew Bedford

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    Transcript (28 pages) of an interview by Matt Driscoll with Drew Bedford on 31 March 2010. Part of the Outdoor Recreation Oral History Project, Everett Cooley Collection tape no. U-2088Drew Bedford was born on August 2, 1964 in Toronto, Ontario, but grew up in Seattle, New Jersey, and upstate New York before his family settled in Charlottesville, Virginia during his teen years. Drew skied throughout his childhood before discovering a passion for climbing when he was thirteen years old. Throughout his high school years in Virginia, Drew climbed as much as possible, despite a relative shortage of quality crags in the Southeast. He moved to Utah in the fall of 1982, enrolling at the University of Utah, and developed his climbing under the tutelage of Les Ellison, Brian Smoot, and Bret and Stuart Ruckman, among others. With routes in traditional climbing, Drew describes the growing pains involved as sport climbing and rappel-bolting entered the scene in the mid- to late-80s. He shares some of his more memorable first ascents, including the first route he put up in Ferguson Canyon and the first free ascent of the Monkey Finger Wall in Zion National Park. He also identifies the lasting influence of a number of climbers from his generation. Project: Outdoor Recreation. Interviewer: Matt Driscoll

    Tennessee roads / Jesse Stuart. In Mountain herald / Lincoln Memorial University.

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    This picturesque poem was written by then-sophomore (and future celebrated author) Jesse Stuart about the roads of Tennessee

    No. 617 Stuart Ruckman

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    Transcript (12, 40 pages) of two interviews by Matt Driscoll with Stuart Ruckman on April 9, 2010, and July 7, 2011Ruckman (b. 1966) was born in Salt Lake City, Utah. Stuart shares how his family, particularly his father, played a significant role in introducing him to the outdoors. Some of his initial explorations included a hike to the top of Mount Olympus when he was five years old, backpacking trips in the Wasatch and Uinta Mountains, and a successful summit attempt on the Grand Teton when he was twelve. Stuart discovered technical rock climbing due to the influence of his older brother Bret, five years Stuart\u27s senior. Bret learned under Dennis Turville, a well-respected Salt Lake climbing instructor. Stuart shares his observations on the Salt Lake climbing community of the late 1970s and 1980s, noting the intimacy of the community, while also pointing out the significant influence of a handful of climbers, including Merrill Bitter, Les Ellison, and Brian Smoot. He briefly describes the proliferation of new-route development in the Wasatch during his first decade in climbing. In collaboration with his brother Bret, Stuart published comprehensive guidebooks on climbing in the Wasatch Mountains. Stuart\u27s contributions as a first-ascensionist and co-author of Rock Climbing the Wasatch Range attest to his lasting impact on Utah climbing. Interview is part of the Outdoor Recreation History Project. Interviewer: Matt Driscol

    Ancient DNA and its contribution to understanding the human history of the Pacific Islands

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    Two recent papers, by Lipson et al. and Posth et al., have challenged current interpretations of the initial settlement of Remote Oceania. We invited Stuart Bedford, who is an author on both papers, to outline their importance, and a number of scholars in various disciplines to comment on their findings

    George MacLeod’s open-air preaching: performance and counter-performance

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    Stuart Blythe uses the methodology of performance to analyse George MacLeod’s open-air preaching. He points out that MacLeod’s preaching was derived from a theology of the incarnation, and an understanding of the paradoxes and dichotomies of common human life. This preaching, Blythe suggests, was also a counter-performance in the context of outlooks and ideologies inimical to the gospel. The paper raises interesting issues related to preaching as performance, and the further question as to whether or not the life and work of the Church as a whole might now be better understood as a counter-performance.Publisher PD

    Redemption in the work of Francis Stuart

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    The idea of redemption is central to an understanding of the work of Francis Stuart. Through an examination of its development and expression, it is possible to demonstrate the integrity of his work and its distinctive qualities. Such a demonstration is necessary because Stuart's writing has been subjected to comparatively little scholarly inquiry, although reviews of his work, especially that produced since 1949, suggest that it is impressive and important. First, a general background to Stuart's work, a discussion of the special problems associated with reading it, and a summary of his corpus is provided. This indicates that the idea of redemption is important to his earliest writing. The state of redemption is shown to be a necessary apotheosis for Stuart's outcast heroes; it involves spiritual suffering through which may be found a sense of reintegration and a higher reality. This is expressed through interrelated themes such as those of gambler, artist and ordinary man; mystic and criminal; sacred and profane love; and spirituality and the mundane. The nature of the redemptive experience is further elaborated by distinctive, complex motifs, especially the hare, the ark and the woman-Christ. Their recurrence provides an important element in the unity of Stuart's work. Because Stuart's idea of the outcast raises important biographical questions, an examination of the relationship between Stuart's life and his work is made. Finally, the way in which the idea of redemption exists in the language structures of Stuart's novels is examined, with especial reference to his most recent work, The High Consistory. The thesis shows that the development of the these of redemption demonstrates the integrity of Stuart's work

    John Stuart Mill’s projected science of society: 1827-1848

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    The purpose of the thesis is to examine John Stuart Mill’s political thought from about 1827 to 1848 as an exercise in intellectual history. It focuses, first, on Mill’s view, formulated by the late 1830s, that contemporary society was ‘civilized’, and second, on his project of a science of society, which he aspired to develop in the late 1830s and early 1840s. By the late 1830s, Mill came to the view that his contemporary society was a ‘commercial society or civilization’, dominated by the middle, commercial class. The first part of my thesis, constituted by Chapters 2-4, discusses the way in which Mill formed his notion of civilization, and what he meant by the term ‘civilization’. Mill paid attention to the implications of the rise of the middle class, and regarded such phenomena of contemporary society as the corruption of the commercial spirit and excessive social conformity as an inevitable consequence of the rise of the middle class. The second part of the thesis, constituted by Chapters 5-9, examines Mill’s projected science of society. In the late 1830s and early 1840s, Mill attempted to develop a new science of society whose subject-matter was the nature and prospects of commercial, civilized society. This aspiration culminated in A System of Logic, published in 1843. In examining Mill’s projected science, I pay particular attention to the fact that he conceived new sciences of history and of the formation of character, both of which were indispensable in his project, although he failed to give a complete account of these sciences. My thesis shows that the implications of his interest both in history and in the formation of character are more significant than Mill scholars have assumed
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