Mormons associate Mahonri Young with his LDS sculptures: Seagull Monument and This Is the Place Monument in Salt Lake City, and the Brigham Young statue in Washington, D.C. Yet Young was internationally known for […]
One may impute two possible rationales to the decision by the University of Illinois Press to reprint an 1842 expose of Joseph Smith and Mor monism. Its re-publication may represent an appreciation for its […]
[…] I took the Freshman Honors Colloquium called “Learning How to Learn” that Gene co-taught with colleagues from English, Physics, and Psychology. My peers and I learned the learner-teacher interchange through the “Gong Method”—a process […]
for Gene England at Utah Valley Hospital, 2001 When I heard about Gene’s surgery, I thought, “Even with half a brain he’d still be ten times smarter than me!”
Jorge Iber’s debut, Hispanics in the Mormon Zion, earned the impressive honor of the Mormon History As sociation’s 2001 Best First Book Award. Iber brings the intellectual tools and fresh insight of ethnic studies […]
“. . .I cut out my patch work & you rested from shoveling snow.” (105) In pioneer times, women salvaged and collected whatever scraps of fabric they could find and created quilts that were […]
A rare treat in Manila—real grass, short and green, probing tentatively out of rich soil. The sky waits to rain—black clouds
One of the most intriguing ironies of life in Salt Lake City during the nineteenth century was the clash of the Mormons who were morally outraged to see the advent of prostitution in their […]
To that lit spot ahead is as far as you’ll walk: open green, bounded by pale shrubs you can’t name, sky in clabbery cloud, light blue showing through. Storm coming, your father would say.
“Go get dressed. You’re no man for this army!” I went, thanking for the first time that crook In my spine that had stopped me buck naked From buck privacy, taken me back to […]