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Setting my snow shovel down, I looked over the Salt Lake Valley, wondering what winter was like in 1847, when pioneer settlers were waking up and striking a fire to warm their hands. According to history, this winter is about as mild as it was 176 years ago, the year after the Saints arrival in the Salt Lake Valley. Elder Parley P. Pratt wrote in February 1848, “The winter was mild and pleasant, several light snows and severe frosts; but the days were warm, and the snows soon melted off.”

At these sites, you can stay warm while learning many things about early Latter-day Saint life in Utah.

After we sent out 80,000 postcards to Latter-day Saints in the U.S., we dig deeper into their responses. Read more.

  Somehow, I failed to call attention here to this little essay, even though it was published in Meridian Magazine a full week ago.  Incidentally,

    Today is the 218th anniversary of the birth of the Prophet Joseph Smith, in Sharon, Vermont.  Perhaps, had he not been born so close to the