Sandy and I had the chance to visit Manti this week for the temple open house. When the renovation work was announced a couple of years ago being able to see the Manti Temple before rededication quickly became a bucket list item. But something unexpected happened to me on this visit to Manti. It reminded […]
In April of 2021 we took a road trip to Southern Utah. It would be my Dad’s final road trip, an exploration of family history. It was his desire to connect the names and dates on the family tree to places – places even that he was familiar with from his first years growing up […]
Just west of a place out in the middle of nowhere on the Utah/Arizona border called Fort Pearce is a old pioneer trail. In this remote place on this mostly forgotten trail are rocks where at a time in the old west travelers left their mark on red stone in wagon wheel grease. Those marks […]
With the news that the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has acquired the Kirtland temple and additional historic sites in Nauvoo the question has come in about our family connections to Kirtland. The individual who comes immediately to mind is Grandfather Gardner Snow, who is the great-grandfather of Muriel Snow, wife of William […]
Of all the projects at the end of Dad’s life nothing was more passionate to him than the history he was writing of my Mother. He attacked it in typical Dad fashion. He wrote an outline, he gave each salient section an objective, he selected pictures and started jotting down notes of things he did […]