[…] held in Salt Lake City on 28 August 1852 and broadcast in a special edition of the Deseret News some three weeks later (O’Dea 1957, 104). With the exception of a fifteen-year period during the […]
[…] Duke Rollins (adapting a line from a Tennyson poem everybody had to study in Mrs. Dale’s senior English class) refer to Mary as “the flower in the cranny wall.” The town girls were slower […]
[…] Doris clearly remembers that it was she who won. Next, I saw her in the Washington County News. I was a missionary in Sweden, tossing out newspapers from the mission office addressed to missionaries […]
[…] “I have a dream!” juxtaposed with a portrait of a villainous Mecham saying, “Dream on” (Tempe Daily News Tribune, 18 January 1987). Jokes about Mecham centered around particular themes, most notably his perceived racism […]
It is a morning flight. We have gained altitude and are somewhere over the Colorado Rockies. Below, through breaks in the clouds, a thin film of early snowfall covers the mountaintops like a veil. High…
[…] to divulge my name. “Mr. Huelett,” who published only one poem under that name in a Nauvoo news paper, is presumably Sylvester Huelett, an associate of Eliza’s during her stay with her sister Leonora […]
As a child in Willard, Utah, Verna Flake remembered a search party being called when someone had let the neighbors’ chinchillas out of their cage. In the end, fears that the exotic, expensive little […]
[…] that comprise it. How Much for the Earth? by Emma Lou Thayne entered its third printing in English in 1989 with translations already available in German and Russian. Proceeds from this printing and from […]
Once while I was wandering through my life, I had a need to say something. I’m not sure where this something came from, but opinions and observations grew on the interior walls of my mind…
[…] widely today. Nor is the role of physical touching excluded from modern healing. In a recent Deseret News article, physician Lynn Fraley stated, in language borrowed from Alvin Tobler’s Future Shock: “The more the […]