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New
Harmony Founders Celebration
Saturday before Labor Day, August 30, 2008
New Harmony Founders Celebration will be held the Saturday before
Labor Day, August 30, 2008. A beginning Arts Festival will be
held with free booth space for adults and children of the valley
and others who have roots here. With our pioneer ancestors in
mind historical art and projects are encouraged and art that
would have offended them will not be given space.
The Founders Celebration will feature bricks
made locally by founder John D. Lee as written by him
in "A Mormon Chronicle, The diaries of John D. Lee1848-1976"
The prosperous year for the Lees of 1868 and even more active
expansion of activities in 1869 begins on page 95 through page
159 when the Lee Family left New Harmony Thursday, April 20..
Details of the Coop store, the lime kiln processing of limestone
into quick lime for mortar, whitewash, plaster and agricultual
ground sweetening and cleansing purposes .Details of the brick
duplex built by him using handmade bricks from his own brickyard
and mortar from quick lime the lime kiln processing of still
in existence, for the two youngest wives, Emma and Ann, is also
found in "Emma Lee"by Juanita Brokks pages 42 through
49.
Art and history display will open at 3 pm
(if exhibiting can set up starting 1 pm) A lecture by Ranger
Bart Anderson, noted historian from St. George at at 5:00 pm
and a walking tour of Lee/Redd/Pace farm between 3 and 5 pm.
John D. Lee on a mission to Tennesee converted
the Redds and Paces who travelled across the plains together
and settled in Spanish Fork area and later were called south,
Lemuel Redd and William Pace arriving in 1862, the year the
Fort fell and population divided and New Harmony and Kanarraville.exhibits
.The towns were already being settled when the el Nino influenced
massisve rain and snow melted the adobe fort. Lee made a new
frame hall and settled on the land where the indian fields of
the southern Untah Indian Mission had been located. He sold
the farm to L. H. Redd when the Lee gfamily left New Harmony
in 1871. When William Redd took his family to Canada in early
1900's, the Harvey A. Pace family bought the farm and also own
the Lawson Farm. A walkiing tour of the farm will be offered.
A dutch ovenand Pit Barbecue dinner will be at
6:00 pm. RSVP to help us plan if possible.. Price per
person will be $10 or $25 per family. you can email lillevon@yahoo.com
to get more details. or valeriehales@msn.com for tentative rsvp.
 Lee's
New Harmony
In 1851, John D. Lee and several others
were called by Brigham Young to make a new settlement in Southern
Utah. Archeological
Excavations
at Fort Harmony
Be
sure to visit Renee Durfee's Genealogy Research Blog.
There's a lot of new info posted.
Lee
DNA Results
Lee's
Nauvoo
A new picture of Lee's
home in Nauvoo has been found. It's work a look.
After
the "Confessions" were written
After the "Confessions" were written Lee dictated a
supplemental statement about his part in the massacre. This is
possibly the best portait of his feelings about the event.
New book is
Released
Massacre at Mountain Meadows
by Richard
E. Turley, Jr., Richard Walker and Glen M. Leonard
On September 11, 1857, a band of Mormon militia, under a flag
of truce, lured unarmed members of a party of emigrants from their
fortified encampment and, with their Paiute allies, killed them.
More than 120 men, women, and children perished in the slaughter.
Massacre
at Mountain Meadows offers the most thoroughly researched account
of the massacre ever written. Drawn from documents previously
not available to scholars and a careful re-reading of traditional
sources, this gripping narrative offers fascinating new insight
into why Mormons settlers in isolated southern Utah deceived
the emigrant party with a promise of safety and then killed
the adults and all but seventeen of the youngest children. The
book sheds light on factors contributing to the tragic event,
including the war hysteria that overcame the Mormons after President
James Buchanan dispatched federal troops to Utah Territory to
put down a supposed rebellion, the suspicion and conflicts that
polarized the perpetrators and victims, and the reminders of
attacks on Mormons in earlier settlements in Missouri and Illinois.
It also analyzes the influence of Brigham Young's rhetoric and
military strategy during the infamous "Utah War" and
the role of local Mormon militia leaders in enticing Paiute
Indians to join in the attack. Throughout the book, the authors
paint finely drawn portraits of the key players in the drama,
their backgrounds, personalities, and roles in the unfolding
story of misunderstanding, misinformation, indecision, and personal
vendettas.
The Mountain
Meadows Massacre stands as one of the darkest events in Mormon
history. Neither a whitewash nor an expose, Massacre at Mountain
Meadows provides the clearest and most accurate account of a
key event in American religious history.
Available
at Deseret Book
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