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Steph Curry took a walk down memory lane of the Warriors organization on Wednesday.

All it took was a question during media day prior to the start of the NBA Finals against the Boston Celtics. Curry was asked about his impression of Golden State when the Warriors selected him seventh overall in 2009 one spot ahead of the New York Knicks, where Curry thought he was going to go.

Instead, in a decision that would define the Warriors franchise for the next decade-plus (and haunt the Knicks in perpetuity), the Golden State brass went with Curry.

Turns out, Curry didnt know much about his new home at the time.

I was growing up on the East Coast, Curry said. So I mean, I watched games. But all I really knew is the We Believe team and the Baron Davis dunk and them beating Dallas. That was top of mind. I knew about Run TMC but didn't really understand the history as much.

The We Believe team that upset the top-seeded Dallas Mavericks in 2007 and the Run TMC days pretty much encapsulated the only periods of success in recent Golden State franchise history until Curry was drafted and the Warriors slowly built around him.

They nearly didnt, as Curry pointed out the drama in his first year, from nearly being traded to the Phoenix Suns during draft night to Monta Ellis publicly stating that he couldnt play with Curry in the backcourt.

The Warriors eventually traded Ellis to the Milwaukee Bucks in 2012 for Andrew Bogut another decision that changed the course of the franchise for the better. Removing Ellis allowed Curry to run the team, and he soon blossomed into a superstar. The rest is history and its still going, with the Warriors on the cusp of their sixth title in eight seasons with Curry as their leader.

But to see the evolution from [2009] to now, and the fact that six out of the last eight years we've been in the Finals, it's crazy to think about for sure and speaks to all the different people who have had a part in that, Curry said. It's been an amazing run. We obviously feel like we still have a lot left in the tank. That's why we're here.

Curry then joked that he didnt want to depress himself with the history of the Warriors organization.

I'm going to think about the bright moments, so I appreciate it, Curry said.

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BALLSTON SPA, N.Y. (NEWS10) The Old Iron Spring is a staple of Ballston Spa history. The spring, which was drilled almost 150 years ago, still stands today on Front Street.

According to the Saratoga County History Center, the Old Iron Spring was drilled by the Village of Ballston Spa to a depth of 647 feet in 1874. Not to be confused with the original Iron Railing Spring, which was only 50 feet away from the Old Iron Spring. The Iron Railing Spring was discovered in 1771 and failed in 1835.

The eight-sided pavilion is regarded as the oldest existing in the area, said the Village of Ballston Spa. Although rebuilt in the 1880s, a portion of the original 1832 abutment can be seen on the south side of Front Street.

The water has a strong iron taste and still runs today. According to the Saratoga County History Center, the medicinal qualities of the spring have been debated for over 200 years, but some residents still swear by the water. Some believe the water from the spring has magical healing powers.

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2021-2022 - The Worst Year in University Of Nebraska Sports History.

It wasnt just the records; it was the method of losing and the expectations before the year started.

Yes, the womens teams did well. Volleyball is still one of the best in the nation. The WBB had a good season, made the NCAA tourney. The softball team won the Big Ten tournament for the first time in school history and made the NCAA tourney.

Thats not what Im talking about. You know that.

Lets put a stake in this year, bury it, and move on.

Theres HOPE for the future. What does it look like?

On August 21st, 2015, I unexpectedly dropped dead of a widowmaker heart attack. I was shocked five times on the way to the hospital with no response. I was shocked two more times in the ER. I was dead for over 20 minutes. A stent was placed, and I was induced into a coma. In January 2016, I received a second stent and in June I was diagnosed with an anoxic brain injury.

I wrote a book about death and recovery. The title, Been Dead, Never Been To Europe reflects the ironic nature of life: what happens versus what we want to happen.

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My second book is directed towards heart attack survivors. Manage Your Damage - Heart Attack Survivor is based upon the strategies I used to recover my life.

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(Tribune file photo) Brigham Young, second president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

| June 2, 2022, 12:35 p.m.

With more than 200 presenters from nearly every continent, and many more attendees, this years annual Mormon History Association conference, to be held June 2-4 at Utah State University in Logan, may very well represent the largest gathering ever of academics and scholars studying Mormonism.

Titled Landscape, Art and Religion: The Intermountain West and the World, the event will feature nearly twice the number of panels when compared to previous years, with 10 to 11 possibilities to choose from in each concurrent session. Discounts are available for MHA members and students.

True to its title, the conference perhaps more than any before it seeks to extend the realm of history into the cultural past as well as into the religious, political and scriptural past, according to Claudia Bushman, current president of MHA.

(Rick Egan | Tribune file photos) Richard and Claudia Bushman in 2018.

This emphasis is reflected throughout the programming, starting with Thursday nights opening reception featuring a carefully curated art exhibition followed by a concert featuring the Deseret String Quartet and Craig Jessops American Festival Chorus. The reception and performance are free and open to all.

Architecture, film, literature and visual arts are featured prominently throughout the next two days of presentations and roundtables, all of which will be streamed online for $60.

At the same time, topics relating to race, gender and indigeneity are woven into many of the presentations titles, including the Friday afternoon panel CRT and CTR: Fifty Years of Teaching the History of Race in Zion. Chaired by USUs Ross Peterson, its presenters include the University of Utahs Ronald Coleman, Genesis Group co-founder Darius Gray, and U. Professor Emeritus Larry Gerlach.

Meanwhile, author Greg Prince will head a session on the Gay Mormon Literature Project, which describes itself on its website as the mountain vault for gay stories in Mormonism an archive of literature with LGBTQ+ Mormon characters and themes.

For her part, Bushman said she is particularly curious to hear religious studies darling Kathryn Lofton of Yale University present on the history of the Mormon smile, scheduled for Saturday at 9 a.m.

Writer Kristine Haglund, who, along with historian Richard Bushman, served as a program committee chair, said the conference embodies larger trends within the study of Mormonism, including the arrival of newer and younger voices.

There is lively interest among younger scholars, Haglund, author of a new book about the late essayist Eugene England, said. I feel less worried about the graying of Mormon studies that we talked about nervously in the early 2000s.

(Courtesy) Kristine Haglund's new book about the work of Latter-day Saint essayist Eugene England.

Haglund also stressed that not all the most interesting work is relegated to the ivory tower.

The professionalization of Mormon history and Mormon studies continues steadily, she said, but MHA and other Mormon organizations have continued to make space for talented laypeople, too, which constantly reminds us about why and how and to whom history matters.

Those interested in attending in person or online can still register through MHAs website.

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Largest-ever Mormon History Association conference shows study of past is alive and well in the present - Salt Lake Tribune

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TIVERTON The Sin and Flesh Brook that winds through Fort Barton Woods is one of the most intriguing places Ive ever come across while hiking in Rhode Island.

The origin of the name dates back 350 years to King Philips War between the Colonists and Native Americans, a series of bloody battles marked by many atrocities.

In the deep woods here in 1676, Zoeth Howland, a Quaker preacher, was tortured and killed while traveling from his home in Dartmouth to visit a congregation in Newport. His mutilated body was found in an unnamed stream that became known as Sinning Flesh River. Over the years, the name evolved to Sin and Flesh Brook.

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That violent history contrasts with the quiet, peaceful preserve I found when I recently hiked through the 98-acre sanctuary. The brook meanders through the isolated eastern side of the preserve under a dense canopy of oaks, maples and holly trees. Thick green ferns carpet the banks.

I set out to see the brook for myself early one foggy morning from the trailhead on the western side of the preserve, which is managed by the Tiverton Land Trust. I walked up a short, steep, paved pathway to the remains of fortified earthworks built on a granite outcropping on High Hill during the Revolutionary War. The redoubt on a bluff 110 feet above the Sakonnet River defended the narrow passage between Tiverton and Portsmouth. It also served as a lookout to check on the British occupation of Aquidneck Island from 1776 to 1779.

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From the fortifications, Lt. Col. William Barton and a ragtag band of Colonists in 1777 launched a daring raid by boat around Prudence Island to Portsmouth. They rowed three boats in the dark of night through the British fleet, slipped ashore and captured British Gen.Richard Prescott in his quarters.

The raid had little strategic significance, but reports of Prescott being led off in his nightshirt swept through the Colonies and boosted the morale of the rebels.

To honor the raids leader, Tiverton Heights was renamed FortBarton.

A 20-story observation tower now stands on the high ground next to a pole flying the American flag. I decided to save the climb to the top for later, after the fog had lifted.

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From behind the tower, I walked down a gravel path to a set of wooden steps that led down a steep embankment and into Fort Barton Woods.

I picked up the red-blazed trail and passed by a farm behind a stone wall on the right, where I heard a rooster crow before seeing chickens in a pen pecking for food. The path, rocky and rooted in places, ran up and down a small ridge before crossing a wooden bridge over Archer Brook.

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Continuing east under stands of holly, birch and black cherry trees, I crossed a stone wall and passed through a muddy area before getting a first glimpse of Sin and Flesh Brook, which meandered easily through the woods.

It was peaceful.

The Pocassets, part of the Wampanoag nation, lived and hunted here for thousands of years.

During King Philips War (1675-1676), they joined other tribes to fight the Colonists after an escalating series of disputes over land claims, tribal rights and cultural tensions. When the Colonists encroached on local lands, the Native Americans retaliated by raiding settlers homes and property. That led to more brutal clashes.

Two of the first armed engagements of King Philips War took place in Tiverton as the war spread throughout the region.

In December 1675, in what is now South Kingstown, the Colonists massacred 600 Native Americans, including women and children, and burned dwellings and food in what came to be called the Great Swamp Massacre. About 150 members of the Colonial militia died in the battle.

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In response, the Native Americans burned settlements and killed Colonists throughout Rhode Island. In 1676, Howland, the preacher, was found dead in Sin and Flesh Brook. Historians have found court records that named a Native American as his killer.

The war lasted until Canonchet, chief of the Narragansetts, and later, Metacomet, chief of the Pokanoket and also known as King Philip, were killed.

As the war ended, the Pocassets were driven from the land, which was granted to Colonists, in some cases for outstanding service during the war. Their farms dominated Tiverton for hundreds of years. The stone walls that crisscross Fort Barton Woods were probably constructed as property lines or barriers to keep livestock from wandering into swampy areas.

I paused and thought about all that history as I followed the red-blazed trail across a wooden bridge over the Sin and Flesh Brook, which flows southwest into Nannaquaket Pond. I crossed the winding brook three more times on wide, wooden-board bridges. At one bend in the river, in a darkened area heavily shaded by tall oaks, the only sound was the water rippling over stones in the shallow stream. It felt a bit eerie.

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The trail bent north and then east, with a stone wall running parallel to the path.

I passed through a rocky area of outcroppings and boulders before dipping down to some wetlands, including a placid, vernal pool with red maple and yellow birch trees growing on a small island in the middle. I heard the strum, a deep, banjo-like twang, of a frog.

At a junction, a blue-blazedcross trail opened on the left, but I continued straight on the red-blazed trail. When I reached a green-blazed trail on the right, I took it up a hillside and through whats called Highland Woods. From there, I took a short path on the left and found a small, stone-lined cemetery with stones for members of the Manchester and Durfee families.

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Just a short walk up the hillside on the left was the observation tower I'd passed when I started. The weather had cleared, and I climbed the wooden tower, erected in 1970, for a panoramic view west to the Sakonnet Passage and Mount Hope Bay. I could see the Sakonnet River Bridge and Roger Williams University far in the distance.

The area around me had once been a staging ground for 11,000 Colonial troops who were ferried across the passage in 1778 to fight in the Battle of Rhode Island on Aquidneck Island. Their assault was unsuccessful.

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When I was done studying the scene, I finished my walk of about 3.5 miles over two hours.

I was intrigued by what I had seen, though, and did some additional research into the meaning of Sinning Flesh River that later became Sin and Flesh Brook. Nobody really knows.

I did learn that Howland became a Quaker after speaking out publicly and harshly against the Puritans, whose clergy fined him, put him in the stocks and drove him from his home in Plymouth. So, does the name refer to a sinful man who was punished for his beliefs? Or is it as simple as the sinful murder of a peaceful preacher? Or does it mean something else altogether?

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Whatever the derivation, the name, and its history, are hauntingand not easy to forget.

John Kostrzewa, a former assistant managing editor/business at The Providence Journal, welcomes email at johnekostrzewa@gmail.com

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Bethels highest academic award, the Thresher, goes to one or more graduating seniors this year to Emma Beachy, Kalona, Iowa, in history and music, and Bethany Powls, Garnett, Kan., in English.

Beachy earned praise from Joel Boettger, director of bands, for the way she developed skills in jazz piano, solid fundamentals of jazz language and a deep love for jazz history while at Bethel, coming in with no training or experience in any of them.

Emmas interests in the critical subject matter of race and gender, late-stage capitalism and their intersection in the trajectory of expression of art, and artists in the current moment have prepared her for cutting-edge research in the field of musicology, Boettger said.

Kip Wedel, associate professor of history and conflict studies, noted Beachys senior research paper on Mary K. Oyer, a pioneer for women in Mennonite music and education and probably the most influential figure in Mennonite hymnody in the 20th century.

In addition to her exemplary research accomplishments, in her four years at Bethel, Beachy was involved in Concert Choir, FemCore, Jazz Ensemble and Jazz Combo, tutoring in the Center for Academic Development, teaching piano at Bethel College Academy of Performing Arts and publishing or presenting her research multiple times.

In fall 2022, Beachy begins Ph.D studies in musicology at the University of Michigan with full funding.

Powls received the Thresher for sustained academic excellence in English studies, for completion of an outstanding English senior thesis, and for her editorial role in campus publications.

English faculty remarked on Powls commitment to research [that] is notable in her senior thesis, From Nursery to Narnia: Ideal Girlhood in Nineteenth-Century Childrens Literature and C.S. Lewiss The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.

Even beyond Powls excellence in the classroom, beginning in her first-year Introduction to Literature course and sustained through four years, and an exemplary senior thesis, the Thresher citation also recognized her for editorial leadership.

Powls served three years as editor-in-chief of The Bethel Collegian, the student-led newspaper, and worked on the editorial team for Bethels annual student and alumni literary magazine YAWP! during her senior year.

As a junior, she did an independent study as an editorial intern for Mennonite Life, creating a significant section of the issue in which alumni wrote on navigating the pandemic.

In addition, Powls was a member of the Bethel College Concert Choir and the womens a cappella ensemble Woven.

Bethel is a four-year liberal arts college founded in 1887 and is the oldest Mennonite college in North America. Known for academic excellence, Bethel ranks at #15 in theWashington Monthlylist of Best Bachelors Colleges and #31 inU.S. News & World Report, Best Regional Colleges Midwest, both for 2021-22. Bethel was the only Kansas college or university selected for the American Association of College & Universities 2021 Institute on Truth, Racial Healing and Transformation, and has been named a TRHT Campus Center. For more information, seewww.bethelks.edu

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