Samuel Harrison Smith
Samuel Harrison Smith June 1830. Mendon, New York. It was in the evening when Phineas, a circuit preacher was on his way home. He stopped at the Tomlinson Inn there in Mendon for dinner. While he was eating and talking with the family, a roughly dressed stranger, a young man, came up to him holding […]
Thurlow Weed
We are working on the show that tells the story of securing a printer for the Book of Mormon. This is one of the things we learned. Thurlow Weed Thurlow Weed was born in 1797 the son of farmers in Greene County New York. Though just a lad he served in the war of 1812 […]
Mother Whitmer and the Angel
Mother Whitmer and the Angel It is one of the most sacred sites of Mormonism—the Peter Whitmer Cabin in Fayette, New York. It was here that the Book of Mormon translation was completed. It was here that three men were chosen as special witnesses and granted the opportunity to converse with an angel, view the […]
Sallie Heller Conrad
Sally Heller Conrad Undoubtedly when Sally took the job she hadn’t planned on this. She was 18 years old and hired on to help out a busy mother around the house. The home was small and in addition to the large family already living there, there were guests living at the house as well. Something […]
Episode 19 The Three Witnesses
Three Sure Witnesses Late June 1829, it was a pleasant summer day about 11:00 o’clock in the morning, in the small community of Fayette, New York when Joseph Smith, Martin Harris, and Oliver Cowdery walked from the home of Peter Whitmer III out into a nearby field where their companion David Whitmer was plowing. Together […]
Episode 15 Oliver Cowdery: Chosen Witness
Among other things we learned in producing a show on Oliver Cowdery was that he and Joseph Smith shared a common ancestor–John Lathrop. He was a 16th century seeker and reformer. A man of immense courage and character. All of this is coming up in a new show to air on KSL on […]
Mormon Wars—A New Book from History of the Saints
For any and all who may be contemplating what to get dad for Father’s day, please consider, “Mormon Wars: Early Persecutions Hawn’s Mill, The Nauvoo War, war of Extermination, Johnston’s Army, and the War on Polygamy.” It is a new book from History of the Saints that will be released the end of April.
The Baptism of Joseph Smith Sr.
Today, January 22, 2014 we interviewed Bill Hartley at BYU. He is the expert on the Joseph Knight family who were among Joseph Smith’s closest friends. They kept journals or wrote later histories that provide invaluable insight into events from the earliest moments of the Restoration. Here is an insight that comes from Joseph Knight […]
Writing Show 08 If Any of you Lack Wisdom: The World of 1820
I spent all of yesterday working on and researching the material for Show 08 of our fourth Season. The Show is entitled If Any of you Lack Wisdom: The World of 1820. This is the story of those events beginning globally, then nationally, and finally regionally around Palmyra that prepared the way for Joseph Smith’s […]
Kenneth L. Alford
We recently interviewed Dr. Kenneth L. Alford of BYU on the Utah War. He told us the story of the Utah of 57-58, and all of the difficulties that caused for both the Latter-day Saints and the United States. One thing really stood out. During that war, the Saints left Salt Lake City and fled […]