Symposium focuses on Winter Quarters
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The drama and lasting impact of the Saints' experience at Winter Quarters, Neb., was the theme Nov. 16 of the fourth annual Mormon History Symposium sponsored by the National Society of the Sons of Utah Pioneers in Salt Lake City.
Scholars lecturing at the symposium were Richard R. Bennett, author and expert on Winter Quarters, and Majorie Conder, curator at the Museum of Church History and Art who has directed the creation of the exhibit at the Church's new Mormon Trail Center at Historic Winter Quarters. Maureen Ursenbach Beecher of the Joseph Fielding Smith Institute for Church History at BYU led a readers theater on life at Winter Quarters.On this page, two of the presentations are summarized. Other proceedings of the symposium will be reported in next week's Church News.
