[…] direction of Beverly Booth Rowland. Performances ran from July 5 to September 1, 1979 in Salt Lake City’s Shire West Theater. The Shire West, formerly the old 15th Ward chapel, seemed a uniquely appropriate […]
[…] doctrine (that is, “the gospel” at least as embodied in the scriptures) as a true and a dequate, if not exhaustively complete, vision and interpretation of the world, of the human self and its […]
[…] adapted from other historical periods and applied to Mormon culture. The period beginning in 1920 became i dentified with a growing conservatism and historicity in architectural attitudes and practice, and the early years in this […]
[…] on our stake board and one to Nona Dyer, a dear and admired friend in Salt Lake City. Marilyn I asked to be my partner, and Nona I asked for information on the Church’s […]
Twelve-year-old Joseph Williams and his family have settled in Clay County, Missouri, following their expulsion by mobs in Jackson County. Robbed of his strength by a brutal beating, Joseph’s father, Matthew Williams, fights an […]
[…] 76-93 to this section). By 1839, two more bishops were called, but each had geographical responsibility ( Missouri and Ohio) for a loose group of members. Presiding authority remained undefined. It was during the […]
[…] general irrelevance of our fiction to the doctrinal interests of the Church. More alarming than the pau city of qualified works of fiction in the Church is the lack of fictional exploration of the […]
[…] old enough to be her father, had offered her security and prestige. His death in Salt Lake City, two months after the birth of their second daughter in 1850, left her once more on […]
[…] place names in the text. These are “The New England Area,” the “The New York-Ohio Area,” “The Missouri-Illinois Area,” and “The United States in 1847,” showing the Mormon trail from New York (1830) to […]
[…] for two years were primitive by American standards. We initially had neither running water nor reliable electri city, for example. Not only were my parents Americans struggling to understand a strange culture while rearing […]