Byron C. Smith

Director and Curator, The Stone House Foundation, Stephens City, Virginia and Adjunct Lecturer, Historic Preservation Program, Shepherd University, Shepherdstown, West Virginia

Belief, Respect, and an Elbow to the Ribs | Richard Lyman Bushman, Believing History: Latter-day Saint Essaysm

Articles/Essays – Volume 38, No. 3

I had a very strange experience once in which Richard Bushman was indirectly involved. This experience took place when I was in an interview with the chairman of a graduate program at a well-respected university.…

Seeing Post-Zion Salt Lake City | Alan Barnett, Seeing Salt Lake City: The Legacy of the Shipler Photographers

Articles/Essays – Volume 39, No. 1

Those of us who study material culture frequently use “rootedness,” which is the quality of an object or a structure when it is fixed in association with a geographical place. For example, a group of…