The misty-eyed author of “The Asphalt Graveyard” (HCN, 2/7/05: Caught in the Headlights) apparently does not realize that not only have paved highways, numbers of vehicles, and speed increased over the past number of years, but so have the numbers of large animals. Elk have increased almost exponentially in Arizona’s mountains, and deer populations throughout […]
H. Virginia Thompson
Posted inDecember 23, 2002: In search of the Glory Days
Mormons don’t recognize history
Dear HCN,Bigotry is an easy label to apply to Ray Ring’s piece on the Martin’s Cove land exchange (HCN, 9/30/02: This land holds a story the church won’t tell), but most Mormons don’t recognize a lot of their own history. Of course, the violence against them in their years in Illinois was terrible. One of […]