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Hill Cumorah Pageant canceled for final year
The Hill Cumorah Pageant will not be performed this year for the final time.
The pageant, which was slated to end in its 83rd year in 2020, originally was postponed for this summer. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints will broadcast the 2019 Hill Cumorah Pageant to commemorate the contributions of volunteer participants through the years.
“It’s with a heavy heart that we don’t have the opportunity to continue to present the pageant,” President Neil Pitts said. “The pageant has had a long and successful run. The world is in a place today where we just cannot continue.
Ready for some fun?
The Salt Lake Tribune recently published a readers quiz called Think You Know Utah? asking questions such as: Why did Mark Hofmann ruin reporter Peggy Stack s first day at the
Tribune? ; and What does A.G. Sean Reyes do under his desk every morning? Well, it got the staff here at Smart Bomb to thinking that maybe we, too, should have a quiz. We ll call it, Do You Get Zion?
1. Where did the Utah Democratic Party get those Klingon cloaking devices?
2. Why did Rep. Burgess Owens bet his COVID Relief $$ that Nancy Pelosi is a lesbian?
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Unlike most talks given at BYU by church leaders, the landmark response of a Latter-day Saint apostle to the murderous spree of forgings and bombings by Mark Hofmann recently featured in “Murder Among the Mormons” can’t be found on speeches.byu.edu.
There’s a simple reason for that, and it has nothing to do covering up church history. In fact in his talk at BYU, then-Elder Dallin H. Oaks issued a scathing reprimand to a major news organization that spent a year insisting the church was covering up a document until it was proved that the document never existed. In fact, and this is mind-boggling, it was Hofmann himself that had deceived the newspaper into believing the document was real and in possession of the church.