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Lost In The Myth
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HE HAS become the defining image of the desert-island castaway:
baggy fur claddings and musket, his hand shielding his eyes from the
less-than-tropical sunlight as he scans the Firth of Forth over the
rooftops of Lower Largo. This 1885 statue of Alexander Selkirk, the
Fife village's prodigal son who was the inspiration for Robinson
Crusoe, might easily be Crusoe himself, as less informed visitors
presume him to be.
Alexander Selkirk - or Selcraig, as his family styled their name -
was born in Lower Largo in 1676. It was 300 years ago next Monday
that he was picked up by the British ...
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No saving grace: the government protected the New from a power company, but its scenic beauty could ruin the river. (real estate development along New River)
Magazine article from: Business North Carolina
; ...rising like great waves in a storm. Bishop August G. Spangenberg, 1752 The old blacktop twists out of Piney...back millions of sparkling pinpricks of light. August Gottlieb Spangenberg was a stout Moravian bishop who took a wrong...
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HISTORICAL HIGHWAY MARKER FOR WACHOVIA SETTLEMENT, NOW CLEMMONS
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News
; ...In December 1752, Bishop August Gottlieb Spangenberg described a future Moravian...Clemmons Moravian Church, 3560 Spangenberg Ave., to commemorate the...River to Muddy Creek. Bishop Spangenberg found the ideal spot there...
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J. C. S. Mason. The Moravian Church and the Missionary Awakening in England 1760-1800.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Albion
; ...the community's founder, Count Nicholas Ludwig von Zinzenzdorf (1700-1760), amended by his successor August Gottlieb Spangenberg (1704-1792), and practiced in the various missionary situations, Moravians brought "fellowship, a Christocentric...
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Anniversaries
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; ...Prior, poet, 1721; Andrew Foulis, bookseller and printer, 1775; Leonhard Euler, mathematician, 1783; Gottlieb August Spangenberg, founder of the Moravian Church in America, 1792; Olaf Swartz, botanist, 1818; Robert Pollok, poet...
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