Katie Clark Blakesley

KATIE CLARK BLAKESLEY {[email protected]} wrote an earlier draft of this article as a summer fellow at the Jo￾seph Fielding Smith Institute for Latter-day Saint History at Brigham Young University in 2003. She graduated with an M.A. in American history from the University of Utah and is an independ￾ent researcher in Alexandria, Virginia, where she lives with her husband, Jayme, and son, and serves on the city's Historic Preser￾vation and Restoration Commission.