― pr00de, where's my car? (pr00de), Saturday, 17 September 2005 19:37 (twenty years ago)
This tradition dates back to 1917, when B. H. Roberts and a group of missionaries went to the Joseph Smith farm outside Palmyra, New York, to celebrate pioneer day. Commencing in 1922, the "Palmyra Celebration" became an annual missionary conference for the Eastern States Mission. In July 1935, as part of the dedicatory exercises for the Angel Moroni Monument, trumpeters at the crest of the hill heralded the commencement of the first production at Cumorah. The next year a pageant, "Truth from the Earth," was presented, and plans were announced to make a pageant at the hill Cumorah an annual event.
Two pageants were presented in 1937: a play about the Mormon pioneer handcart companies, The Builders by Oliver R. Smith, on July 24, and America's Witness For Christ by H. Wayne Driggs on July 23 and 25. The latter script, with occasional revisions, was then presented annually for fifty years (excluding 1943-47). Harold I. Hansen, a missionary with theatrical training, was named codirector and thereafter continued as director for forty years, overseeing the installation of a sound system built by stereophonic sound pioneer Harvey Fletcher, the expansion of the all-volunteer cast and crew to almost six hundred participants, and the run extended to seven performances. In 1957 the pageant was recorded with original music by Crawford Gates.
On July 22, 1988, a new America's Witness for Christ, written by Orson Scott Card with music again by Crawford Gates, premiered. Its major theme—the reality of Christ's Atonement, resurrection, and ministry to the Nephites—is boldly portrayed through events recorded in the Book of Mormon. The visual aspects of the pageant were also updated, with new stages, seating, properties, costumes, and special effects, and a recontoured and landscaped hill.
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― m coleman (lovebug starski), Saturday, 17 September 2005 20:56 (twenty years ago)
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Somehow, if I remember correctly, their little shit brother is "the secret" to the book's mystery.
― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Sunday, 18 September 2005 00:15 (twenty years ago)
What is Mormon-opoly®? Mormon-opoly® is a creative and exciting LDS game based on the principles and history of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The goal of this Mormon game is to build as many chapels and stake centers as possible in order to “help build the kingdom of God”. Players can learn about LDS church history and read related scriptures as they move about the board. In addition, the game addresses financial management and community service as well.
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― s/c (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 18 September 2005 02:30 (twenty years ago)
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― pr00de, where's my car? (pr00de), Sunday, 18 September 2005 03:57 (twenty years ago)
― s/c (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 18 September 2005 06:05 (twenty years ago)
Frederick Walter Cox was 23 when he married his first wife, Emeline Whiting, who was 18 at the time. Nothing particularly unusual about that. Sounds like your typical modern LDS marriage: twenty-three-year-old RM, eighteen-year-old BYU co-ed. Only it was 1835. They had 13 children
On the same day in 1846, in the Nauvoo temple, Cox was sealed to wife number one and to brand new wives two and three: Jemima Losee and Cordelia Morley. (I’m descended from Jemima Losee.) Cox was 34 at the time and both new wives were 23. Neither were old maids, neither were widows. The eleven year age difference is a bit large, but not scandalous. He had 11 children with Jamima and 8 with Cordelia.
Eight years later Cox took a fourth wife, Lydia Losee. She was 17 – and Jemima’s sister. He was 42 – old enough to be her father. This was after the Saints were safely established in Utah. They had only three children together.
Four years later, Cox married a 40-year-old woman, Mary Ann Darrow. “Ah-ha,” the faithful saints must be thinking. “Finally a widow or old maid!” Actually, neither. This is where the strange tale of polygamy gets even stranger.
It starts with Mary Ann and her husband, Edmund Richardson, and their two children, in a wagon train headed for Oregon. Their ox team dies and they limp into the Salt Lake Valley while the rest of the train goes on. The Richardsons convert to Mormonism and are sent to Manti by Brigham Young. However, as part of his previous religious convictions, Edmund had been castrated. (And you thought Mormonism was extreme.) Naturally, wanting to be a good Mormon woman/builder of the Kingdom/brood mare, Mary Ann wanted more children. And so, a plan was worked out, thanks to the wisdom of Brother Brigham. Edmund and Mary Ann divorced. Mary Ann was then sealed to Cox but continued to live with Edmund and her first children. She had two children with Cox (and might have had more if menopause hadn’t set in) but they were named Richardson. Some reports have it that after having all her children Mary Ann divorced Cox and remarried Richardson. Next on Jerry Springer…
Finally, when F. W. Cox was 57, he married 19-year-old Emma Smith Petersen. Now we’re almost in the range where Cox is old enough to be her grandfather. He died ten years later, after siring six children with Emma.
So that’s the short scoop on Frederick Walter Cox. Six wives, 43 children. And he’s just one of four polygamists in my family tree.
― m coleman (lovebug starski), Sunday, 18 September 2005 15:17 (twenty years ago)
― pr00de, where's my car? (pr00de), Sunday, 18 September 2005 16:09 (twenty years ago)
They used to hang out by train stations and proselytize to curious school children by inviting them to "free English lessons" a.k.a. Mormon indoctrination. I used to get really pissed off by the bait and switch, especially when I found out that some of my students were getting waylaid on the street because they were too polite to just walk away. When they asked me what I thought of Mormons I tried to scare them off them by alluding vaguely to Aum.
― Laura H. (laurah), Sunday, 18 September 2005 18:15 (twenty years ago)
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