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Show INTERESTING ARTICLES ON -MORMONS HAVE APPEARED IN EASTERN PUBLICATIONS "Vermont Life," the official publication of New England's Eng-land's well-known commonwealth, and a high-class magazine maga-zine whose pages splash plenty of color, carries a ' Mormon Article" in its current winter issue. Written by Milton R. Hunter, Ph.D. historian, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the article presents an introduction written by Willsie E. Brisbin, secretary sec-retary of civil and military affairs, State of Vermont. Occupying ten pages in the center cen-ter of the book with thirteen pictures, pic-tures, including a double page picture pic-ture spread in color of the Mormon Trek from Nauvoo to Salt Lake City, and a full-page picture of Brigham Young in color, the article arti-cle tells the story of the origin and growth of Mormonism, the great trek across the plains and the building of the present intermoun-tain intermoun-tain empire. A significant point of interest in the introduction is the proud mention in large print that a "Ver-monter "Ver-monter Brigham Young," stood before the Great Salt Lake and declared to the faithful who had migrated half way across the continent: con-tinent: "This is the place." Continuing, Con-tinuing, the writer says: "Brigham "Brig-ham Young had taken over the leadership from the hands of another an-other 'Vermonter Joseph Smith,' who was assassinated. ..." Such an article, published in the official magazine of the State of Vermont and well read in New S " England, has inestimable publicity value to Utah and the intermoun-tain intermoun-tain west, it is pointed out by the Utah Department of Publicity, who last season met and conferred with a Vermont state official who came to Utah to secure cooperation coopera-tion in preparing the story. Tells Mormon Story . . . Noting that the New York Sun of January 15th carried mention in their travel column to the effect that an Erie Railroad magazine had published an article on Utah, the Utah Department of Publicity wrote the author of the piece, hoping hop-ing to secure more information. The author promptly answered, he turned out to toe the editor and publisher of the Evening Transcript, Tran-script, one U. G. Baker of Susquehanna, Susque-hanna, Pa. Mr. Baker wrote: "... had no knowledge that New York Sun had picked up my story on Mormons . . . sorry have no copies of magazine left . . . please write George C. Baker, assistant to the president of the Erie Railroad. Rail-road. . . . The Susquehanna section is rich in Mormon lore. The Erie Railroad crosses the 13 acre's of land once owned by the Prophet Joseph Smith." The New York Sun columnist, in condensing Mr. Baker's railroad magazine story, says : i "Thirteen acres of land once owned by the Prophet Joseph Smith and his father-in-law, Isaac Hale . . . recently re-cently .were purchased by the Mormons Mor-mons from George Colwell, an Erie Railroad car inspector. Veiled by weeds on the sacred thirteen acres is the cellar excavation of the prophet's pro-phet's home and an abandoned well; near by is a house standing on the foundation of the Hale home. . . . This land . . . was the scene of Joseph Smith's courtship of Emma Hale and of the couple'3 elopement to Afton, New York, in 1826, after Isaac Hale had refused his parental permission for the marriage. . . . Three miles north of where Prophet Smith owned the only land he ever had, is the stone foundation of what was to have been the first Mormon temple. Editor Baker has done a neat work in tying in fragments of Susquehanna Susque-hanna county history with the more frequently related history of the prophet and the Mormons. |