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A Mormon Image: Surrender Dorothy

A Mormon Image — Wed, 29 Jun 2011 03:00:27 +0000

I grew up in the Washington DC area, and fondly remember driving on the capitol beltway from the east toward the Temple and seeing the “Surrender Dorothy” graffiti on a railroad bridge, soon after the Temple had appeared to rise from the ground in front of me. I’ve regularly laughed at the sly commentary on the Temple’s architectural similarity to the Emerald City of the Wizard of Oz.

Yesterday, the Washington Post’s answerman ran the above photo and asked for information about who the graffiti artist was and why he risked life and limb to repeatedly make this statement. I would find it quite amusing if the perpetrator were LDS!

Kent

A Mormon Image: Cemetery in Carrol County

A Mormon Image — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 19:50:54 +0000

After retirement, my father turned to family history and temple work to fill his time. Most of this work has focused on researching ancestors from Virginia and North Carolina. I took this photo at a cemetery in Carrol County, VA, near the the birthplace of my father’s grandparents. My father is shown in the picture. While in the cemetery he was able to locate headstones of people for whom he had completed temple work. It was the first and only time that my father has visited this place that has taken so much of his attention.

As a side note, I have to feel for my ancestors who left lush, green, beautiful Virginia for the desert of Vernal, Utah! Sorry Vernal.

By L-d Sus

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A Mormon Image: Joseph’s Birthplace Memorial At Dusk

A Mormon Image — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 06:28:02 +0000

“I was born in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and five, on the twenty-third day of December, in the town of Sharon, Windsor county, State of Vermont.” Joseph Smith History 1:3

By Gary Boatright Jr.

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A Mormon Image: Brothers

A Mormon Image — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 05:57:15 +0000

We’ve been teaching our oldest son Peter that he’s a big brother to our younger son Jeremy. When Peter learned that Joseph Smith also had a big brother, he fell in love with the concept. Now whenever we go somewhere church-related, he asks, “Will there be a picture of Joseph and Hyrum?”

By Robert Gibbons

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A Mormon Image: Hand in Hand on Temple Square

A Mormon Image — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 04:56:41 +0000

Walking hand in hand with my family on Temple Square in April 2009. Taking our one year old daughter for the first time was very special, and as we walked I looked around to ask someone to take our picture. We were alone. As I looked at our shadows, I thought that was a much more powerful image; for me, it invokes the feeling of moving forward and facing the future together. This is my favorite photo from that trip.

By Christy D.

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A Mormon Image: Knocking on Dracula’s Door

A Mormon Image — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 17:00:33 +0000

Even Dracula and his minions deserve to hear about the Book of Mormon.

by Dan Dubei

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A Mormon Image: Mormon Helping Hands

A Mormon Image — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 14:26:21 +0000

About 800 Members of the Sacramento California Stake and their friends donated more than 2,000 man-hours at the City of Sacramento’s William Land Park, which has seen its finding cut by 60 percent in recent years and its maintenance staff trimmed from 22 to seven employees. Volunteers focused on numerous work projects, including historic trail restoration, power-washing of park amenities, landscape maintenance, specialized gardening, and the cleaning out of the park’s three ponds. The volunteer service in Land Park has an estimated value of more than $70,000.

by John S. McKinney

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Renewed Call for Photo Submissions

Marc Bohn — Fri, 28 May 2010 03:08:30 +0000

Since instituting the “A Mormon Image” series last fall, our submissions have slowed from a glut to a trickle. As a result, we thought we would issue a new call for photographs to be considered for inclusion in the series. The instructions for submissions can be found here and the images we have featured since kicking off the series can be viewed here.

A Mormon Image: Nauvoo Temple at First Light

A Mormon Image — Mon, 24 May 2010 20:21:28 +0000

The Nauvoo Temple at about 4:15 in the morning. I was up watching the equipment for the pageant and saw the Temple at the first early light.

by D. Wenger

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A Mormon Image: Apostle and Cowboy

A Mormon Image — Fri, 21 May 2010 18:34:33 +0000

Elder George Albert Smith at Sundown Ranch in Aripine, Arizona (1941).

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