Arizona – Utah May and June 2017

This is the right place I’m not going to provide you with an extensive biography of Brigham Young (possibly to the relief of many) but rather will concentrate on his leadership in getting the LDS settlers from Missouri to Utah. …

After visiting the Pioneer Memorial Museum the day was still young and I had plans aplenty. I walked down the hill from the Capitol to circumvent Temple Square and look at the main Temple of the Church of Jesus Christ …

The Railroad Story Fueled by the California Gold Rush of 1849, the idea for a transcontinental railroad took hold of the American imagination and body politic. Even from the beginning, several problems stood in the way of this dream – …

Oh, Philo, Come on before we go Hey, I’m in Utah. Don’t begrudge me another Footloose reference even if it’s a bit twisted. The reason I went to the Capitol building was to take a picture of this statue: Why …

Beehive yourself My next stop was the state Capitol building where I wanted to see one particular statue that I’ll discuss below. If you enlarge the photo below and look at it very, very closely you can see what appears …