[…] They were often horrendous affairs which scared me for years. I don’t recall those characters so stylish today—Laurel and Hardy, W. C. Fields, Charlie Chaplin – but if Louis Hayward, Robert Donat, and Tyrone […]
I often spoke in jest of our “Compound-Complex F amily,” but I was firm in my resolution to make this marriage and our family life a success. I well knew that I could never […]
[…] for what was best. And now, the morning of September 26, 1876, my husband, scanning the morning news, suddenly read aloud, “Tomorrow morning Utah students take the train for eastern colleges along with missionaries […]
[…] sisters, I find this a bittersweet year for me to be participating in a Mother’s Day progr am, for my own mother passed away last November and my husband’s mother was buried just two […]
[…] the April Era against pornography and obscenity. As a widow with three young boys to raise I am concerned about the possible dangers that lie ahead of them and certainly don’t advocate a diet […]
[…] review-essay entitled “The New Mormon History,” Moses Rischin spoke of the sophistication with which scholars both within and without the Mormon culture were beginning to examine the Mormon past. He added, “This seems only […]
This poignant observation by Dale L. Morgan was written even before World War II, and the erstwhile Utah sons and daughters spoken of are themselves now grandparents. Moreover, it is doubtful that anyone any […]
[…] and feelings of those who may be quite different from us. For one thing, our missionary progr am is not at all directed toward a rational approach to Mormonism, and few of us can […]
[…] 1922 publication, Joseph Fielding Smith’s Essentials in Church History has been regarded by Mormons as the st andard one volume account. Even though it was continually expanded and updated through 28 editions (most recently […]
[…] Pratt in London, with the promise that it would “stand aloof from the common political and commercial news of the day,” it had covered the death of the Prophet Joseph Smith. With the demise […]