Bishop David

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    Passing through here in 1795, Bishop Asbury commented, ‘The country improves in cultivation, wickedness, mills, and stills.’ Five years later, he held a meeting in the neighborhood and remarked that he thought most of the congregation had come to look at his wig.
    —Administration in the State of Sout, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)

    Even the elephant carries but a small trunk on his journeys. The perfection of traveling is to travel without baggage.
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)