Carol Edison

CAROL EDISON is Folk Arts Coordinator for the Utah Arts Council. A version of this paper was presented at the annual meeting of the American Folklore Society in Cincinnati, Ohio, October 1985.

Mormon Gravestones: A Folk Expression of Identity and Belief

Articles/Essays – Volume 22, No. 4

For years cultural geographers, folklorists, and other researchers have identified and delineated the Mormon region of the American West by charting characteristic elements of its cultural landscape. In his 1952 work The Mormon Village, Lowry…