Latter-day Saints made their first known cinematic appearance in 1898 in Salt Lake City Company of Rocky Mountain Riders, part of a series of very short motion pictures depicting American troops in the Spanish-American War. Since then thousands of films and television programs have dealt with Mormonism; at present the Mormon Literature and Creative Arts database lists 4,591 such items.
I first entered the Longfellow Park chapel on September 4, 1977. It was fast Sunday. I was a new physics grad student at MIT and a convert, baptized only about six months previously. This pair…
In 1967 when I was eight years old, my family moved from Salt Lake to Cambridge. The building on Longfellow Park quickly became a symbol for what I had brought with me from Utah: a…
So many memories! It would take a book to record them all.
I was there from 1976 to 1983 and returned many times, including a three-and-a-half month visit in 1997.
The Longfellow Park building was as quirky and original as its congregants. I hope the church will use this fire as an opportunity to build a more orthodox, rectangular, “Mormon” building in Cambridge and hopefully…
The story of Nephi occupies a prominent place in the hearts of the Latter-day Saint people. As a young man, he was singularly affected by his father’s teachings and, despite his relative youth, became the de facto leader of the extended families of Lehi and Ishmael even before his father’s death. Later, as a prophet in his own right, he led a people who called themselves “Nephites” in his honor; and nine centuries after his death, hundreds of thousands of Nephites still honored his name and legacy. He belongs to the ages as the namesake of an ancient nation.
I feel really sad about this, but also a little bittersweet. I’ve never been one to feel sentimental about buildings, but this news today has prompted a sweet little trip down memory lane. As is…
Today I live in Seattle, but my heart is (and always has been) in Boston. When I got the text, in between Sunday meetings, that the Longfellow Park chapel had burned, the tears sprang rapidly.…
I’m presently a member of the Longfellow Park First Ward and have been here since 2006. I know it’s just a building, but the Longfellow Park Chapel was one of the reasons I knew Boston…
I started attending the Longfellow Park chapel in the fall of 1993 as a new student in the University Ward. I didn’t know a soul. I still live in New England today, and this chapel…