[…] Caucasian, English speaking, and whose children were all fourteen or younger. We conducted the interviews by telephone for several reasons: reduced cost, monitoring by a third person for problems that might arise, and elimination […]
[…] of our cultural heritage like the ‘great Boyg’ or sphinx in Peer Gynt, frustrating all our ef forts to walk around it?” (pp. xviii-xix) To appreciate fully what Frye has given us, readers should […]
[…] to hire a boy to do chores and promised room, board, and a two-year-old heifer in exchange for a year’s labor. Moments later, fourteen-year-old Willie Pilkington, several months removed from a Lancashire sweat shop, […]
These were the words of Brigham Young to his Mormon followers at the first Sunday services held at Winter Quarters on a wind-swept rise of land on the west side of the city’s proposed Main […]
[…] questionnaire to all of its then-2,300 subscribers plus 600 who had let their subscriptions lapse in the previous year. At that point, the journal had been edited in Salt Lake City for exactly two years.
For a book of remembrance we have written among us, according to the pattern given by the finger of God; and it is given in our own language (Moses 6:46). Sometimes in my journey through […]
[…] that even though “many Mormons are descendants of polygamists, most Church members are often no better in formed on the critical aspects of their polygamist past than non-Mormons.” Even though the various archives through […]
[…] 1844 martyrdom of the Prophet Joseph and his brother Hyrum, Uncle John provided a bridge of continuity for the office of Presiding Patriarch of the Church. What kind of man was John Smith? His […]
[…] my dad’s old priest hood manual written by T. Edgar Lyon. Later I found even older manuals for MIA and Sunday School by other Mormon authors such as E. E. Ericksen and B. H. […]
[…] Martha Jenkins, the youngest daughter Maggie called Marthy. “Hello, Mr. Jolley,” Marthy said. “I have a message for you from Mama. She’s shot on over.” Marthy knew I would understand. They were the words […]