From: owner-lds-bookshelf-digest@lists.xmission.com (lds-bookshelf-digest) To: lds-bookshelf-digest@lists.xmission.com Subject: lds-bookshelf-digest V1 #969 Reply-To: lds-bookshelf Sender: owner-lds-bookshelf-digest@lists.xmission.com Errors-To: owner-lds-bookshelf-digest@lists.xmission.com Precedence: bulk lds-bookshelf-digest Saturday, November 1 2003 Volume 01 : Number 969 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2003 18:23:00 -0700 From: "Philip Bradford" Subject: [LDS-Bookshelf] Under the Banner of Heaven, A Story of Violent Faith. Jon Krakauer This is a multi-part message in MIME format. - ------=_NextPart_000_0026_01C3496B.CABD2E70 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Here is another review published in the LA Times that may be of interest. http://www.calendarlive.com/books/bookreview/cl-bk-bazelon13jul13.story Phil - ------=_NextPart_000_0026_01C3496B.CABD2E70 Content-Type: text/html; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

Here is another review published in the LA Times that may be of = interest. 

 

http://www.calendarlive.com/books/bookreview/cl-bk-bazelon13jul13= .story

 

 

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- ------=_NextPart_000_0026_01C3496B.CABD2E70-- - ---------------------------------------------------------- - - LDS-Bookshelf, information and discussion of LDS books - - To unsubscribe, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with - - "unsubscribe lds-bookshelf" (without quotes) in the message body. - - For assistance, mail to "lds-bookshelf-owner@lists.xmission.com" ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2003 22:00:52 -0400 From: "Holden Mark" Subject: [LDS-Bookshelf] NY Times article on new Krakauer book Below is a copy of a lenghty article on the new Krakauer book (Under the Banner of Heaven: A story of Violent Faith) that was in today's Sunday New York times. FYI the article was on the front page of the Sunday Styles section (this section of the newspaper typically includes wedding/celebration announcements, fashion, and society photos). Placement in this section seems to suggest that the book is regarded as likely "beach reading." Other articles on the same page include "How to move up? The Sorority Track" and "Advice from Ex-Cons to a Jet-Set Jailbird." Mark Holden ________________________________________ What's Left After Everest? July 13, 2003 By TIMOTHY EGAN BOULDER, Colo. FRESH from writing one of the most popular books ever published about mountain climbing, Jon Krakauer circulated a proposal for his next project. An account of the 1984 killings of a Utah woman and her infant daughter, the new book promised outlaw sex, bizarre rituals, unknown history, an examination of the tragic consequences of faith - all built around murder in the service of a home-grown religion. Editors were perplexed. " `Where are the mountains?' " asked one editor, Mr. Krakauer recalled. "People think of me as this outdoor writer. But I'm really a seeker, a doubter. I'm interested in those people who take things too far, because I see something of myself in them." There is a moment in all his books when Mr. Krakauer turns the story on himself and presents an imperfect human - an author as guilty of the hubris, doubt and foolishness that push his nonfiction characters to extremes. So it is in his latest book, "Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith," which Doubleday is bringing out this week, complete with a publicity agent's dream controversy - loud condemnation of the book by his primary target, the Mormon Church. "I don't know if God even exists, although I confess I find myself praying in times of great fear, or despair, or astonishment at a display of unexpected beauty," he writes. "In the absence of conviction, I've come to terms with the fact that uncertainty is an inescapable corollary of life." Until six years ago, when Mr. Krakauer wrote "Into Thin Air," an account of a deadly season on Mount Everest, books about mountain climbing were to the literary world what sensible shoes are to fashion - serviceable and plodding. But the book he produced, dashing it off in a three-month sprint of writing and emotional purging, was not the usual how-I-conquered-the-top-of-the-world tome. In a story of arrogance and missteps at the highest altitude, Mr. Krakauer and his party reached the summit of the world's highest mountain in the spring of 1996. On the descent, four of his teammates died, and Mr. Krakauer blamed himself, in part. The book was a sensation, riding best-seller lists for two years, translated into 24 languages, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and a National Book Critics Circle award. There are now more than 3.6 million copies in print. It made Mr. Krakauer, a former carpenter and fisherman who scrapped for a living as a freelance writer, a rich man. He was free to pursue his passions and settle down along the Front Range here in well-manicured Boulder. The book followed "Into the Wild," Mr. Krakauer's story about a lost American soul, Chris McCandless, who died looking for inner meaning without sufficient outer protection in the Alaskan bush. It also became a best seller. Now, with "Under the Banner of Heaven," Mr. Krakauer has begun his own culture war. If he thought the mini-industry spawned by his Everest book - competing books, death threats and continuing Web battles - was a nuisance, he may one day look back on that experience as a minor dust-up compared with what could follow his book questioning religion. Already, the Mormon Church has questioned his motives and veracity, while pointing to some secular publications - like the Economist magazine - that have criticized him for failing to explain why people are drawn to the church. The gist of the complaints is that, having climbed to the top of the world and written well about it, does an admitted agnostic really think he can take on a popular religion? Or even get it? Mr. Krakauer, whose friends both praise and fault him for his laserlike intensity, certainly takes his swings. A year ago, the nation was appalled at the kidnapping of Elizabeth Smart, the sunny-faced Utah girl of 14 whose abductor says he was following early Mormon scripture in taking her as one of his brides. But as Mr. Krakauer writes, Joseph Smith, the Mormon Church's founder, also took a 14-year-old girl as one of an estimated 40 wives, explaining to her that God had commanded her to become part of his harem. "My friends in Utah say Elizabeth Smart was more vulnerable to this kind of thing because the culture puts so much emphasis on obeying the word of God," Mr. Krakauer said. In the book, Mr. Krakauer examines Mormon fundamentalists, the tens of thousands of true believers living mostly in Utah who broke away from the original Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The splinter groups are the American Taliban, Mr. Krakauer says, living in desert theocracies where pubescent girls are forced into marriages with old graybeards who rule with an iron fist. These polygamous communities are against the law, but usually tolerated by officials who see a little bit of great-grandpa's pioneering ways in the modern sects. The biggest of these communities, Hildale/Colorado City, on the Utah-Arizona border, is full of houses the size of a Days Inn motel, stuffed with dozens of wives married to self-styled Mormon fundamentalist patriarchs. The community is in open violation of the law, Mr. Krakauer and others have noted, but faces little legal sanction and also manages to have one of the highest ratios of welfare recipients in the country. His main focus is on Dan and Ron Lafferty, a pair of Utah brothers who believed they were ordered by God to kill their sister-in-law and her 15-month-old daughter. Brenda Lafferty had her throat slit with a 10-inch boning knife, and her daughter, Erica, was also stabbed. Dan Lafferty is serving a life sentence and his older brother, Ron, is on death row. The brothers said they did it because Brenda opposed their plan to take multiple wives. Mr. Krakauer draws a connection between the revelations the Lafferty brothers claimed guided them and early Mormon acts of "blood atonement," in which followers targeted victims because of purported divine inspiration. Ron Lafferty, Mr. Krakauer notes, was a Republican city councilman and devout Mormon, who came to believe that his religion had lost touch with its roots, which allowed men to practice polygamy and to receive divine revelation. Mr. Krakauer faults the modern Mormon Church, perhaps the fastest growing religion in America, with worldwide membership approaching 12 million, for failing to honestly address a past where taking young wives, killing on behalf of God and open disdain for the Constitution are papered over in place of a more Osmond-friendly image. Often overlooked by mainstream historians, the story of how a church founded by radicals who practiced an early form of communism and sanctioned sexual promiscuity through multiple wives has come to be known for white-bread conservatism is a compelling American tale. The church officially renounced polygamy in 1890, and excommunicates members who openly practice it. But officials in Utah say up to 60,000 people continue to live in polygamous families there. The church issued a five-page, single-spaced rebuttal of the book two weeks before publication. They found some relatively minor factual errors in the book, which Mr. Krakauer has promised to correct, and they took issue with one of his central points. The book "is a full frontal assault on the veracity of the modern church," Mike Otterson, a church spokesman in Salt Lake City, said in a statement. "His basic thesis appears to be that people who are religious are irrational, and that irrational people do strange things." In tying the crimes of the Lafferty brothers to the roots of the church, Mr. Krakauer has smeared an entire religion, Mr. Otterson said in the statement. "Krakauer unwittingly puts himself in the same camp as those who believe every German is a Nazi, every Japanese a fanatic, and every Arab a terrorist." Doubleday, which is bringing out a 350,000-copy first printing of the book, seems delighted with the controversy. Its publicists promptly faxed the Mormon Church rebuttal to reviewers, and passed on phone numbers of church spokesmen. Church officials say they agonized over responding in such a splashy way to the book, but decided that they had to make their stand, even at the risk of running the book up the best-seller charts. Mr. Krakauer, a wiry, bearded, 49-year-old man with a sense of humor that is rarely evident on the pages of his books, admires the Mormons for their faith, he said during an afternoon in Boulder. "I grew up with Mormons," said Mr. Krakauer, who was raised in Corvallis, Ore. "I like this culture. What I'm less comfortable with is the mind-boggling certainty of this or any religion." He seems unfazed by fame; he has been married to the same woman, Linda Moore, for 23 years, and moves around Boulder with minimal interruptions from strangers. He can seem tightly wound, but the guilt and soul-searching that followed Everest are genuine, say friends. "The controversy over Everest changed him," said John Rasmus, the editor of National Geographic Adventure Magazine, who has worked with Mr. Krakauer for 20 years at other publications. "Jon felt the Everest book was somewhat the result of being in the right place at the right time and that he had profited from what turned out to be a tragedy." In a postscript in a later edition of the book, Mr. Krakauer called himself "stubborn and proud and loathe to back down from a fight," and wished that he had been "a little less strident" in his post-Everest debate with a climbing guide, Anatoli Bourkreev, who died shortly after his own book on the deadly season came out. Mr. Krakauer had faulted the guide for leaving the summit before all of his clients were down the mountain, and for not using supplemental oxygen. With the new book, Mr. Krakauer has fresh demons on his flanks. In their rebuttal of Mr. Krakauer, Mormon officials describe him as "agnostic," a label Mr. Krakauer does not dispute. "I'm trying to figure out religion," he said. "I'm not a social reformer, but I am troubled by this sheeplike acceptance that faith is always good." Mr. Krakauer's father was a Jew from Brooklyn, an agnostic and a medical doctor, who moved to Oregon and became friends with another famous outsider, the writer Bernard Malamud. In "Into the Wild," Mr. Krakauer wrote some less-than-flattering things about his father, now dead. They reconciled before his death, he said. The latest book started as an inquiry into the nature of faith. He chose the Mormons because he has always been fascinated by them, he said, and because they have long tried to convert him, with missionaries showing up on his doorstep. His research led him to Dan Lafferty, who cooperated with Mr. Krakauer from his cell in Utah, and still shows no remorse for his crimes. The church says Mr. Lafferty is simply a murderer who used his own cryptic religious revelations as an excuse to go after his sister-in-law because she opposed his views on polygamy. "I don't believe Dan Lafferty is crazy or a psychopath," Mr. Krakauer said. "He is an example of an inevitable outcome of strong belief. The modern church's refusal to acknowledge its history has spawned people like Dan Lafferty." This kind of deduction is far too simple, say Mr. Krakauer's critics. If in fact the early church history is so toxic that it continues to inspire people to murder, why are there not more people like the Lafferty brothers? The murders, the church says, are anomalies - not evidence of cause and effect. MR. KRAKAUER still climbs, often twice a week with a friend, scaling the rock walls in Boulder's backyard. He does not consider reaching the summit of Everest a major mountaineering achievement. "I'm kind of freaked out by it all now," he said. "If I had to write a climbing résumé now, I wouldn't even put Everest on it." Mountaineering is like a religious faith in one way, he said, because it defies reason. And climbing Everest is the ultimate irrational act. "The plain truth is that I knew better but went to Everest anyway," Mr. Krakauer wrote at the start of "Into Thin Air" in 1996. "And in doing so I was party to the death of good people, which is something that is apt to remain on my conscience for a very long time." He wrote the Everest book as a cautionary tale, blaming commercial guides for rushing overeager clients up a mountain that requires expertise and patience - and can't always be bought. It has had the opposite effect, of drawing more people to the mountain, Mr. Krakauer said, and now he is disgusted with the climbing world's continued focus on Everest. "The owner of an Everest guiding service recently thanked me for bringing him more clients," Mr. Krakauer said, shaking his head. If the new book has the same effect on the Mormon Church, they may be thanking him in Temple Square, the church headquarters, as well. http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/13/fashion/13KRAK.html?ex=1059147229&ei=1&en=93315e4f63f76b6e _________________________________________________________________ MSN 8 with e-mail virus protection service: 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/virus - ---------------------------------------------------------- - - LDS-Bookshelf, information and discussion of LDS books - - To unsubscribe, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with - - "unsubscribe lds-bookshelf" (without quotes) in the message body. - - For assistance, mail to "lds-bookshelf-owner@lists.xmission.com" ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2003 10:55:53 -0600 From: hjmckell@xmission.com Subject: Re: [LDS-Bookshelf] NY Times article on new Krakauer book Hi all, We finally got copies of the Krakauer book in Fri., so I started to read. Then Sunday in the Trib, as you all know, there were three articles on the book - The Mike Otterson, from church PR; Turley and Krakauer. In Turley's article he branded me very well. He stated that "Although the book may appeal to gullible persons who rise to such bait like trout to a fly hook, serious readers who want to understand Latter-day Saints and their history need not wate their time on it." I like the book. Krakauer is a good writer, as soon as I started reading the book I was reminded of Truman Capote's _In Cold Blood_. The book's a barn-burner. It will sell well, even though it may be problematic, lurid and not sufficiently nuanced. The book doesn't appear to be directed to a mormon aduience and I doubt whether the gentiles will care. LDS reviewers have aready shown an unappreciative bend and Turley has told the faithful not to read it. I can't imagine the Fundamentalist LDS leadership recommending it. (which should help sales!) True, _Under the Banner_ does not paint a swell picture of Mormon beginnings, Joseph Smith, Brigham Young and others but its lurid expose of the fanitical mormon fundi's "underbelly" is shocking but perhaps all too true. hjm (gullible person) btw Krakauer describes a Colorado City Priesthood Authority pedophile who got off by saying is was a good man and father and loved his family reminded me of the Kingston pedophile recently released from prison (SLC) by promising not to marry (read have sex) any more of his brother's 16-year- old daughters. - ---------------------------------------------------------- - - LDS-Bookshelf, information and discussion of LDS books - - To unsubscribe, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with - - "unsubscribe lds-bookshelf" (without quotes) in the message body. - - For assistance, mail to "lds-bookshelf-owner@lists.xmission.com" ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2003 15:16:27 -0700 From: "Keith Irwin" Subject: [LDS-Bookshelf] Seminar on book collecting This is a multi-part message in MIME format. - ------=_NextPart_000_0001_01C35388.E5E71450 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit HBL library is offering a half day seminar on book collecting which includes a tour of their special collections. http://sc.lib.byu.edu/gentlemadness.html#register Keith Irwin irwinkw@earthlink.net "In nature, it's the early bird that gets the worm. With book collectors, it's the bird who knows a worm when he sees one." - ------=_NextPart_000_0001_01C35388.E5E71450 Content-Type: text/html; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

HBL library is offering a half day seminar on book collecting which includes a tour of their special collections. =  

 

http://sc.lib.= byu.edu/gentlemadness.html#register

 

 

 

Keith = Irwin

irwinkw@earthlink.net

"In nature, it's the early bird that gets the worm.

With = book collectors, it's the bird who knows a worm when he sees = one."

 

- ------=_NextPart_000_0001_01C35388.E5E71450-- - ---------------------------------------------------------- - - LDS-Bookshelf, information and discussion of LDS books - - To unsubscribe, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with - - "unsubscribe lds-bookshelf" (without quotes) in the message body. - - For assistance, mail to "lds-bookshelf-owner@lists.xmission.com" ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2003 21:20:30 -0500 From: "Edlund, Mark J" Subject: [LDS-Bookshelf] Krakauer in the NYT I got around to reading my copy of yesterday's New York Times today and noted that "Under the Banner of Heaven" was featured on the cover of the book review section. It has reached number 4 on their hardcover non-fiction list. Mark Edlund - ---------------------------------------------------------- - - LDS-Bookshelf, information and discussion of LDS books - - To unsubscribe, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with - - "unsubscribe lds-bookshelf" (without quotes) in the message body. - - For assistance, mail to "lds-bookshelf-owner@lists.xmission.com" ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 09 Aug 2003 15:03:18 -0700 From: "Joe Geisner" Subject: Re: [LDS-Bookshelf] Krakauer in the NYT Those on Mormon Library please excuse the cross post. I finally finished “Under the Banner of Heaven”. As a Mormon with some knowledge of its history I wish Krakauer had spent little to no time on Joseph Smith and Brigham Young. His treatment of Missouri, Nauvoo, Carthage, the Utah War, Mountain Meadows Massacre and John D. Lee were frustrating for me. I understand why he wrote about these events, and why he relates them to Lafferty’s and FLDS, but the connections frustrate me and I am not convinced by his dots. Yes the Lafferty’s and the FLDS are products of the Mormon community, but I seriously doubt they are much of a student of history of these events and people. People like Joseph Musser, Loren Woolley, John Koyle and Warren Johnson had one sided understanding of these events because they lived in some of them. People like Fred Collier and Ogden Kraut have tried to learn and understand these events in a historical setting, but I think Fred and Ogden are unique in the fundamentalist community. I understand Kraukauer is writing to a non-Mormon audience and wants to place the FLDS and Lafferty’s in historical context, but for me it seemed over kill. Having Joseph Smith, Brian David Mitchell, Ruby Jessop’s “husband” and the Kingston’s tied together historically because they all married fourteen year old girls is difficult for me to follow. I would suggest there are other reasons for the similarity. A shortage of woman, the vulnerability of the young girls and the ability to manipulate them, or the “need” to show virility by the men makes more sense to me than any connection to history. Being God’s mouth piece is just a way to manipulate people. I think the biggest problem with the book is Krakauer’s lack of coverage on Allen Lafferty and Claudine Lafferty. What kind of a person can sit around and hear her daughter-in-law and grand-daughter’s murder being planned and do nothing? What kind of person can know about a “revelation” to kill his wife and do nothing? What kind of people can belong to this”School of the Prophet’s” and hear a revelation about murdering people and do nothing? I am guessing all of these people refused to talk with Krakauer and this is why the lack of coverage. I also wonder if the pressure to get a book out was another reason. I do see a connection to MMM and the planning of these murders, and the group think in planning murder. The strength’s of this book is Krakauer’s coverage of current FLDS, the insights he gives into Dan and Ron Lafferty, his detailing of the murder’s. These are all complicated and difficult subjects and Krakauer does a great job in explaining and helping the reader understand. I especially liked his discussion on narcissistic personality disorder and its relation to Ron Lafferty. I learned quite a bit about modern fundamentalist and I understand the disgust of J. Reuben Clark and Spencer Kimball to polygamy. Joe Mark Edlund writes: > I got around to reading my copy of yesterday's New York Times today and >noted that "Under the Banner of Heaven" was featured on the cover of the >book review section. It has reached number 4 on their hardcover >non-fiction >list. > >Mark Edlund > _________________________________________________________________ The new MSN 8: advanced junk mail protection and 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail - ---------------------------------------------------------- - - LDS-Bookshelf, information and discussion of LDS books - - To unsubscribe, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with - - "unsubscribe lds-bookshelf" (without quotes) in the message body. - - For assistance, mail to "lds-bookshelf-owner@lists.xmission.com" ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2003 09:48:36 -0700 From: "Joe Geisner" Subject: [LDS-Bookshelf] Will Bagley at his best Part I ( last week's column ): http://www.sltrib.com/2003/Aug/08032003/utah/80804.asp Today's Part II is found at http://www.sltrib.com/2003/aug/08102003/utah/82736.asp _________________________________________________________________ Add photos to your messages with MSN 8. Get 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/featuredemail - ---------------------------------------------------------- - - LDS-Bookshelf, information and discussion of LDS books - - To unsubscribe, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with - - "unsubscribe lds-bookshelf" (without quotes) in the message body. - - For assistance, mail to "lds-bookshelf-owner@lists.xmission.com" ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2003 17:45:31 -0500 From: "Steve Eccles" Subject: [LDS-Bookshelf] Prominent (ex)LDS dies Will: This link may be of interest to you --- http://www.sacbee.com/content/news/obituaries/story/7205229p-8150957c.ht ml - --Steve - ---------------------------------------------------------- - - LDS-Bookshelf, information and discussion of LDS books - - To unsubscribe, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with - - "unsubscribe lds-bookshelf" (without quotes) in the message body. - - For assistance, mail to "lds-bookshelf-owner@lists.xmission.com" ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2003 16:18:21 -0600 From: hjmckell@xmission.com Subject: [LDS-Bookshelf] Re: My Good Friends at the Arthur H. Clark CO. Hi all, Bob Clark at the Arthur H. Clark Co. just sent me this e-mail. I thought I would share it with all of you since many have interests in Western history and certainly many of the books Bob and company have published have been Mormon Americana/Western Americana. The on-going Kingdom in the West series, Brooks' book on John D. Lee, Backus on Klingensmith, Hafen with his several series and other books to name a few. BTW, I hope you have all got your copy of Fort Limhi by now - it should win some awards. Dave Bigler is a good writer, researcher and historian. Congratulations to Bob and the Arthur H. Clark Company! BTW II. For those of you collecting the USU series on Frontier Mormon Women, vol. 6: A Widow's tale is now out. Hugh The Arthur H. Clark Company > selected top publisher > in Western History > > True West magazine, with a readership of 157,000 and an international > circulation, has selected The Arthur H. Clark Company as “Best National > Publisher of Western Nonfiction” in their most recent issue, due on > newsstands this month. The Clark Company celebrated its hundredth > anniversary of publishing non-fiction American history in 2002, and this > > award highlights the continuing achievements of its publication program > among frontier history aficionados. > > In addition, the company was selected as the “Best Western Bookstore” in > > Washington State because of its inventory of rare and collectible > out-of-print materials on the frontier. Its store, located located in > Spokane, Washington, is a hidden treasure for collectors. Almost all of > its business is conducted by mail order via catalog and over the > internet with customers throughout the world. Its website can be > accessed at www.ahclark.com. > > The second annual “Best of the West” issue from True West includes > selections of the country’s favorites from artists to artisans and > movies to music. Information on the magazine can be found on the web at: > > www.truewestmagazine.com. The selection of the small Spokane firm over > the major national trade and university press publishers is a tribute to > the healthy and growing niche publishing businesses located throughout > the country. > > > > The Arthur H. Clark Company > P.O. Box 14707 > Spokane, WA 99214 > > 509-928-9540 > FAX 509-928-4364 > www.ahclark.com - ---------------------------------------------------------- - - LDS-Bookshelf, information and discussion of LDS books - - To unsubscribe, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with - - "unsubscribe lds-bookshelf" (without quotes) in the message body. - - For assistance, mail to "lds-bookshelf-owner@lists.xmission.com" ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2003 10:10:33 -0700 From: "Albert Gardner" Subject: [LDS-Bookshelf] Mormon Alliance I recently found vol. 2 and 3 of "Case Reports of the Mormon Alliance" 1996 and 1997. The is a small amount of information regarding the Mormon Alliance included in the volumes. Is this organization still active? Are there other volumes available and does anyone know of the most recent one? Albert Gardner Yuma Territorial Prision Yuma, AZ (Yuma averages 89.5 days each year of over 100 degree temps. This year we have had over 130 so far and set 8 new records. Yesterday and today it's in the 80's and forcast to remain that way for some time so maybe we are all to be released for good behavior. Of course this is a continuing sentence so re-incarceration is scheduled for next April or so.) - ---------------------------------------------------------- - - LDS-Bookshelf, information and discussion of LDS books - - To unsubscribe, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with - - "unsubscribe lds-bookshelf" (without quotes) in the message body. - - For assistance, mail to "lds-bookshelf-owner@lists.xmission.com" ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 1 Nov 2003 20:49:12 -0800 From: "Keith Irwin" Subject: [LDS-Bookshelf] BYU book collecting conference This is a multi-part message in MIME format. - ------=_NextPart_000_0001_01C3A0B9.9E3ABF70 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I'm surprised there have been no posts about the BYU conference on book collecting. In attendance were Bookshelfers, Morgan Adair, Curt Bench, = Joan Nay, Brian Romriell, Kendall Gubler, H. J. McKell, Joe Geissner, Dave Skidmore, and...who did I leave out??? =20 This conference certainly exceeded my expectations. I came away with a renewed respect for the breadth and depth of the special collections = staff as well as the wonderful stuff they have. I doubt I'll ever again be = able to see Emma's hymnal, a Book of Commandments, copies of The Reflector, = as well as rare broadsides I'd never heard of before. I particularly = liked the session on street literature. Great stuff with wonderful examples. The capstone was a tour of the vault and their conservation labs.=20 =20 My take is that this conference was significantly more successful than = they had planned. The result is that it will become an annual affair. Kudos = to Brad Westfield, Chair of Special Collections, who was stimulus for this. = =20 =20 Perhaps others will share some of what they gleaned. =20 =20 Keith Irwin irwinkw@earthlink.net "Everything I know is subject to further information" =20 - ------=_NextPart_000_0001_01C3A0B9.9E3ABF70 Content-Type: text/html; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

I’m surprised there have been no posts about = the BYU conference on book collecting.  In attendance were Bookshelfers, = Morgan Adair, Curt Bench, Joan Nay, Brian Romriell, Kendall Gubler, H. J. McKell, Joe Geissner, Dave Skidmore, and…..who did I = leave out???

 

This conference certainly exceeded my = expectations.  I came away with a renewed respect for the breadth and depth of the = special collections staff as well as the wonderful stuff they have.  I = doubt I’ll ever again be able to see Emma’s hymnal, a Book of Commandments, = copies of The Reflector, as well as rare broadsides I’d never heard of = before.   I particularly liked the session on street literature.  Great stuff = with wonderful examples.   The capstone was a tour of the vault and their conservation labs.

 

My take is that this conference was significantly = more successful than they had planned.  The result is that it will = become an annual affair.  Kudos to Brad Westfield, Chair of Special = Collections, who was stimulus for this.   

 

Perhaps others will share some of what they = gleaned. 

 

Keith = Irwin

irwinkw@earthlink.net

"Everything I = know is subject to further information"

 

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