Lectures to focus on Nauvoo heritage
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A day-long symposium focusing on the humble beginnings and lasting achievements of Nauvoo, Ill., is scheduled for Sept. 21 at BYU.
The city was founded 150 years ago when Joseph Smith on May 1, 1839, purchased the site of Commerce, Ill., and some adjoining land."The symposium is an official sesquicentennial event," said Elder Loren C. Dunn of the First Quorum of the Seventy. "It is designed to pull together the most recent research on Nauvoo."
Elder Dunn is president of the North America Central Area and of Nauvoo Restoration Inc.
He said this is the next-to-last event in a series of celebrations this year. The final event will be the dedication Oct. 9 in Nauvoo of four projects.
Elder Dunn and President Gordon B. Hinckley, first counselor in the First Presidency, will speak at the symposium.
President Hinckley, the final speaker of the symposium, will be featured at a 6:30 p.m. banquet in the Ernest L. Wilkinson Center Main Ballroom. His topic is "Nauvoo - Sunrise and Sunset on the Mississippi." He will be introduced by Pres. Rex E. Lee of BYU.
Elder Dunn will open the symposium at a 9 a.m. forum in the Main Ballroom. He will be introduced by Bruce C. Hafen, BYU provost.
"This is an excellent way to reflect on and commemorate the history of Nauvoo," said William G. Hartley, research historian for the Joseph Smith Institute of Church History at BYU and co-chairman of the Nauvoo Symposium.
"It's exciting because Nauvoo has such importance in the history of our Church."
Selected papers given at the symposium will be collected and published at the beginning of 1990 in a special edition of BYU Studies.
The symposium is sponsored by the BYU College of Family, Home and Social Sciences, The Joseph Fielding Smith Institute for Church History, The BYU History Department, Religious Education and the BYU Department of Church History and Doctrine. Admission to the sessions is free, but advanced registration and payment are required for the evening banquet.
