[…] authors add no extraneous details, assumptions, or conjecture. They let the facts speak for themselves, without glossing over anything — including serious mistakes made by some LDS General Authorities. The form of the book […]
[…] describe the position of these “traditionalist” critics. Furthermore, what he does say about them is often confusing[ 6] as well as difficult to follow since a number of his references are to works that […]
[…] winter, the only customers were coal truckers and on Saturday nights underaged boys from Helaman trying to buy beer. I spent the winter months in town with Aunt Fran, partly because it was closer […]
[…] in the yard. The police were very kind. They made him return the three idle carts and buy the fourth. Two weeks later the same officers returned with a blaze orange stocking cap. They […]
Spring sneaked into town while court convened. One noon, I walk from my office to my old neighborhood and find it well-kept. The ditch I’d hurtle galloping home from school has been curbed and guttered.
[…] house were a garden and a barnyard from which came eggs, tomatoes, corn, and milk. One could buy shovels, shoes, and firecrackers at the ACMI, the Church-owned cooperative. Along the lanes were ripgut juniper […]
[…] of Utah and Mormon historiography ought to be rejoicing at the flowering of literature in that field over recent years. Beginning perhaps in the last decade with Wallace Stegner’s biography of Bernard DeVoto and […]
[…] which meat cuts were on sale. Gran always memorized the specials. It took her five hours to buy her groceries and another day to evaluate them. “I don’t think this grapefruit is worth half […]
[…] few days on a personal matter. He hopped aboard a train, arrived in Salt Lake City at 6 A.M. the next morning, and went immediately to the Presiding Bishoprics’ Office, then located in a […]
[…] each day, would recite poetry to her and take her horseback riding in the parks” (1983, 5- 6). Fawn’s parents had strong reservations about the match. Flora recalled that the McKay family fasted and […]