For every serious student of Utah’s history, there is a first time to visit the dusty archives or the microfilm files of the Salt Lake Tribune of half a century or more ago. Two impressions […]
[…] a few books that come very close to being completely successful. Many books fail utterly. Most books —good books—both fail and succeed. Such is the case with Glena Wood’s The Jawbone of an Ass. […]
[…] . . and from there it is all down hill, at speeds in excess of 214 MPH —something of a breakthrough, actually. But rather than go into any further details concerning this hard-cover pamphlet’s […]
[…] one chest containing dozens of tiny drawers in which could be found interesting things of all descriptions —bunches of white paper tags hanging from loops of string, thin folders of Bull Durham cigarette papers, […]
My Grandpa Thatcher told two kinds of stories —real life tales of the Old West and Bible stories. I sat politely through the latter so as not to hurt his feelings, but what I […]
[…] Church, are thinking of leaving the Church, have come back into the Church, or are active Mormons —both convert and life-long members. This wide spectrum of viewpoints provides for a lively discussion of what […]
In a recent New Era article (August 1972) Arthur Henry King made an incisive comment about Mormon literature: Mormon artists, he said, “need not write especially for Mormons, and they need not write especially on…
[…] unhappily, religion has not always sought this end. Too often it has sought intimidation of the spirit, in the process belittling both the spirit and the body that houses it. Too often it has […]
[…] planned on making the journal a professional-quality monthly, illustrated and edited by an all-volunteer staff of students —well, they dismissed him as an amusing but mad eccentric. Despite knowing smiles and prophecies that the […]
[…] Parley P. Pratt on the challenge of polygamous living, doggerel rhyme from Carson Valley about Mormon girls —these and many other light touches beckon the reader and keep the narrative lively. Ironically, the one […]