Robert Charles Burdett (Bob) is a writer, author, and playwright. His major interests are genealogy, architecture, history, and religion. He is a native of North Dakota but has lived in Omaha, Nebraska since 1970.
Burdett is a graduate of Bismarck Junior College (1968), North Dakota State University (BSIE, 1970), Creighton University (MBA, 1975), and the Archdiocese of Omaha Catholic Biblical School (2003-7).
In an earlier life, Burdett was a statistical quality control engineer for Western Electric (Ma Bell’s manufacturing unit), Lucent Technologies, and Avaya. This, in part, explains his strange writing style (e.g., all those tables and section headings).
A more complete biography can be found in "BS2: An Autobiography."
Robert Charles Burdett (Bob) is a writer, author, and playwright. His major interests are genealogy, architecture, history, and religion. He is a native of North Dakota but has lived in Omaha, Nebraska since 1970.
Burdett is a graduate of Bismarck Junior College (1968), North Dakota State University (BSIE, 1970), Creighton University (MBA, 1975), and the Archdiocese of Omaha Catholic Biblical School (2003-7).
In this book “A Catholic” provides some tips for how you can pray Scripture. The first three chapters define and describe: “A Catholic,” prayer types, and Scripture (from a Catholic perspective). Chapter 4 provides the promised “Prayer Writing Techniques” noted in the books subtitle. The next four chapters provide some examples of...
Building upon a thesis proposed by Arthur Gray, Master of Jesus College, Cambridge, this book contains a history play which dramatizes how Henry Goodyer, Thomas Burdett, and Raphael Holinshed, via a literary salon called the “Polesworth Circle,” educated, trained, and supported two of England’s most notable poets and playwrights, Michael Drayton...
Shortly after December 7, 1941, the Genda, Oshima and Shiroyama families were uprooted from their Terminal Island, California homes and interred at Manzanar. This book provides some details on the lives of these three families before, during and after their incarceration. It also examines the U.S. Governments conduct during the war, life on...
It tis the season where tomatoes are often ripening in the garden faster than they can be eaten or given away. In such times, I often make my “Smokey Tomato Soup” (which can be frozen and eaten throughout the winter). I also often make a batch or two at the end of the season when the last of the tomatoes are removed to ripen inside.
I will warn you, while the recipe is simple, it is also messy and labor-intensive. I just made a batch yesterday and it took me about three hours from the first...
I just finished tallying up how many cousins I have/had. The number was much larger than I expected – 38, 20 on my mother’s side and 18 on my father’s side. As the oldest child of two oldest children, I was born (1948) before most of my cousins. Cousin Nancy was one of the few exceptions, along with cousins Marilyn, Joanne, and Cara (maybe). Cousin Lee was born a month later than me.
My Senger Cousins
I grew up in North Dakota around the Sengers (my mother’s siblings). Uncle John’s...
This is part two of a two-part book review of Buffalo Bill and the Mormons, by Brent M. Rogers (2024).
In Part 1, I concentrated on Rogers’ depiction of Buffalo Bill. In this part of the review, I will examine Rogers’ depiction of the Mormon church and the anti-Mormonism that was rampant during Buffalo Bill’s early years as an actor and impresario. I will then review how that anti-Mormonism was mollified after the polygamy issues with the federal government were resolved – as Cody’s interest...
