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Archive: June, 2015

“Sacrifice brings forth the blessings of heaven”: Understanding the Nauvoo Temple – a new exhibit

The following is a blurb on a new exhibit showing in Special Collections, curated by Annie Kirkpatrick, an intern who worked for Ryan Lee this past Winter Semester: “In this era of the Church, temples dot the land, with the number of dedicated temples around the globe nearing 150. Locally we are witnessing the open …

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Victorian Book of the Month: Crossing into modernism

June 13 marks the 150th anniversary of the birth of Irish poet and playwright William Butler Yeats (1865-1939). The selection for June’s Victorian Book of the Month is one of his most significant early poetry collections, The Countess Kathleen and Various Legends and Lyrics (1892). It includes such famous poems as “The Lake Isle of Innisfree” …

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