In Graham Guest's novel Henry's Chapel we watch a film by proxy, through the eyes of a narrator who offers a play-by-play account, complete with probing analysis, of Albarb Noella's Lawnmower of a Jealous God. Within this unusual frame we encounter the story of an isolated family in rural East Texas, a tragicomic tale of incest, abuse, mental illness and liberation. As meta-narrative and narrative merge into one another, the film's characters, its director, and implicitly the narrator and author themselves all become significant figures, while the film itself becomes both an immersive if ghostly medium and a distanced object of critical inquiry, its meaning and being inseparable from the metafictional organism that contains it. The final product is a kind of narratological incest heretofore unexplored.

"'Give me Liberty, or give me Death'!" is a famous quotation attributed to Patrick Henry from a speech he made to the Virginia Convention. It was given March 23, 1775, at St. John's Church in Richmond, Virginia, ..

An account of the history, architecture and monuments of the chapel, the final, exquisite flowering of the gothic style.

John Cate was born ca. 1753 in Orange County, North Carolina. He served in the Revoltionary War in North Carolina. He was the first member enrolled on the records of the Dumplin Baptist Church, Duplin Valley, Tennessee, in 1797. He was the father of at least eleven children. Descendants listed lived in Tennessee, Iowa, and elsewhere.