Two years ago I reviewed Stan Bronson’s album Down from the Mountain for AMV. My family has really enjoyed Bronson’s appealing singing voice and musical take on San Juan County history. My impression of the album was that anyone interested in Mormon-themed folk music might find Down from the Mountain a fun listen.
The website I linked to went [...]
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Back when William first approached me about guesting on AMV, he offered this as a possible topic:
A guest post on you and your wife and your creative processes (and even how family impacts them). How do you find time to write? What helps you write? Where do your creative processes and ambitions collide/feed off of/interact [...]
Since February is Black History Month I’ve been thinking: what do we know about the history and experiences of black members of the LDS church?
For me, the answer is not much. I mean, I’ve heard my dad tell his story about having to defend the Church and it’s policies in a high school history class [...]
In July, I was visiting with a Navajo Mormon neighbor on another matter when she asked if I thought my eleven-year-old daughter might like to perform in the local Mormon pageant, The Voices of San Juan. I had never seen the pageant but said I thought that she would like very much to take [...]
During November 2007, Latina poet Fila Harris and I organized a local chapter of the NEA’s “The Big Read,” a literacy project designed to restore literacy to the center of American culture. We conducted a series of book group discussions centered around one of The Big Read’s selected novel’s, Bless Me, Ultima, by Rudolfo Anaya. [...]
J. Golden was talking with one of the Quorum members one time, and the “brother” said to him, “Brother Kimball, I don’t see how you can swear so much, Why I’d rather commit adultery than swear so much.” J. Golden answered, “Wouldn’t we all brother? Wouldn’t we all?”
Visual artist Larry Ogan was born in Clearfield, Utah in 1948 at the Hill Air Force Base Hospital. His ancestors on one side were Mormon pioneers that came to Utah from Nauvoo; ancestors on the other side immigrated to Utah from Australia. More of his family is from Missouri. Says Larry, “My Baptist [...]
A few nights ago I took my kids to a local storytelling festival. The storytellers were all Native Americans or had Native American heritage and the stories they told were trickster stories — Coyote stories, etc. — that traditionally may be told only during the winter months.
