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Show Locals to perform at pageant years ago. In grand manner hundreds of years of history unfold to tell the story of early American peoples who were visited and taught by the resurrected Christ. The pageant gives a glimpse of events that led to the establishment of the LDS Church, founded in 1830 by Joseph Smith, who translated the Book of Mormon. The actors dramatize, in scenes of spectacular visual beauty, an amazing history PALMYRA, N.Y. -Eight people from Iron County have been selected to perform in the Hill Cumorah Pageant here. They are Jeannette LeFevre, Cedar City; Mark H. Bottema, Cedar City; Ann Hatch, Cedar City; Patti Bonzo, Cedar City; Suzanne Nakken, Cedar City; Tammy Jones, Cedar City; Lanette Gurr, Parowan; and April Melanie Evans, Parowan. For the 45th year, the rolling hills near Palmyra will be the setting of a magnificent outdoor theater with 25 stages, over 600 elaborately costumed actors and powerful light, sound, and special effect systems. The pageant is performed per-formed to audiences of over 100,000 people from July 23-31, with a total of seven performances. Historically significant to members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Latter-day Saints, the Cumorah site is background for the story of the Book of Mormon a book of sacred scripture translated tran-slated from golden plates found in the hill over 150 |