Gary Huxford

GARY HUXFORD is emeritus professor of history, Western Oregon University. He serves as the self-appointed mayor of Cooper Hollow. Gary and his wife, Catherine, served a mission in East Africa, 1997-99, dividing their time between Kenya and Ethiopia. From 2000 to 2002 they served a second mission together in Haiti.

Yesterday’s People

Articles/Essays – Volume 39, No. 1

It would take a detailed map of Ethiopia to help you locate the village of Lalibela more than four hundred miles north of Addis Ababa. Save for a lyrically beautiful name, there is little to distinguish this place except that it contains some of the world’s most amazing monuments to religious devotion—the “mysterious subterranean, monolithic rock hewn churches,” as one travel guide describes them.