Kathryn J. Abajian

KATHRYN J. ABAJIAN has long taught high school and community college English in the San Francisco Bay area. Currently she is on leave, traveling and studying in Southeast Asia. She also follows the art and culture of Utah where her children live and where she has come especially to admire the landscape and lifestyle in Sanpete County.

Ella Smyth Peacock: Seeking Her Place in the West

Articles/Essays – Volume 32, No. 1

Like the early Mormons whose beliefs she would eventually adopt, landscape artist Ella Smyth Peacock early on sought refuge in the west.[1] She was born in 1905 in Germantown, near Philadelphia, a city created in…