Fayone B. Willes

FAYONE B. WILLES, of Wayzata, Minnesota, is an amateur historian, homemaker, and author of Minnesota Mormons (1990). An earlier draft of this essay was presented at the Mormon History Association annual meeting at Claremont, California, May 1991.

A Closer Focus: Challenges in Doing Local History

Articles/Essays – Volume 25, No. 3

The sweep of wide-angle Mormon history is impressive, offering a comprehensive panorama of the Church’s worldwide workings, progress, and achievements. But to see Mormon history only through this wide-angle lens is to miss the rich…