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Show Return from Trip To Connecticut Mr. and Mrs. Merrill Allen and Peggy have returned from a pleasant pleas-ant 10-day visit at Coventry, Conn, where they were house guests of their son-in-law and daughter. Nathan and Kathleen Adams. The Merrills went by train to Hartford, Conn, and there were met by their daughter and her husband, who drove them to Coventry. Cov-entry. With them they toured most of New England,, and drove on to Rutland, Rut-land, Vermont, where they were guests of Mr. and Mrs. Albert C. Adams, parents of their son-in-law. They visited and witnessed the pageant, America's Witness for Christ, at Palmyra, and with the Adams' drove to Niagara Falls. They attended LDS Church services ser-vices at the Hartford Chapel, first chapel of the LDS Church to be dedicated in the New England States. This was in 1952 and now they are reported to have five LDS chapels in the New England States. Enroute home they had a days layover in Chicago and thus had a chance to do some sightseeing. Among other places of Church interest visited were the Joseph Smith farm, the Sacred Grove at Palmyra, Joseph Smith's birthplace birth-place and the Monument placed there to the memory of the prophet and of Brigham Young. |