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Keepapitchinin @keepapitchinin.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

What?! You mean that wasn't a personal response just to me?! I'm crushed!

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Keepapitchinin @keepapitchinin.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

He owes me something like 15 responses. Not that I want to read them.

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Keepapitchinin @keepapitchinin.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

May you be “wildly successful” in your learning moments, Theric.

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Keepapitchinin @keepapitchinin.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

"I continue to desire the President and his administration will be wildly successful in advancing policies that benefit the country. While no administration is without its learning moments, I believe there have been important course corrections that are helping to move us in a better direction."

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Keepapitchinin @keepapitchinin.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Utah senator John Curtis (or his intern) describes the murder of Americans on the streets of Minneapolis as a "learning moment," in response to one of my daily messages:

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Keepapitchinin @keepapitchinin.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

Martin Luther King made a brief visit to Salt Lake City in 1961. Here's my short post about that visit, written in 2007. keepapitchinin.org/2017/01/16/m...

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Martin Luther King in Deseret (Reprise) | Keepapitchinin, the Mormon History blog

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Keepapitchinin @keepapitchinin.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

I pre-ordered it based on this first notice. Ha! Guess I showed you!!

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Keepapitchinin @keepapitchinin.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

a young Josiah Gibbs how to plane floors for the Salt Lake Theater, or the several other woodworking references I’ve run across in his letters, Brigham Young knew wood and never lost his love for craftsmanship. Thanks, John!

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Keepapitchinin @keepapitchinin.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

there, giving his preferences for the curing of wood to be used for pails, washtubs, and churns. I know the point of framing the letter for display is the original signature, but I also really love the content – whether it was for humble buckets, or kneeling to teach

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Keepapitchinin @keepapitchinin.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

This is why I wanted to beat the UPS driver back here this morning: My friend John has sent me this beautiful thing, straight to my Brigham Young-loving heart. It’s an original BY letter, 10 May 1860 to Samuel A. Woolley in Parowan. That old time carpenter had instructions for the bucket factory

A framed 1860 letter by Brigham Young, with his portrait, displayed on a hand-made 19th century wooden cupboard filled with vintage linens.

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Keepapitchinin @keepapitchinin.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

“We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed.” — II Corinthians 4:8 Get your mammogram, sisters.

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Keepapitchinin @keepapitchinin.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

Monday, December 8, before military authorities would allow him, a civilian, to send even the briefest of telegrams. 2/2

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Keepapitchinin @keepapitchinin.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

With the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Roscoe C. Cox, president of the Latter-day Saint Hawaiian Mission, knew parents of his missionaries, and Church leaders concerned about membership, would be desperate for information. It was the afternoon of the next day, 1/2

Image of telegram:

Kealakekua Hawaii 13
8/239P [date and time of sending]

1941 Dec 9 AM 7 19 [date and time of receipt]

Heber Grant
47 East South Temple St
Salt Lake City Utah

All Well

Roscoe C Cox

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Keepapitchinin @keepapitchinin.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

My mom had her Cub Scout den make them in the late ‘60s!

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Keepapitchinin @keepapitchinin.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

My favorite Thanksgiving graphics from the old LDS magazines ... but also a terrible reminder of the false assumption that Native Americans are gone. From the Children's Friend, 1949

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Keepapitchinin @keepapitchinin.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

Have just scrolled through eight screens of Blue Sky and don't have the slightest idea what ANY of the posts refer to.

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Keepapitchinin @keepapitchinin.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

I really shouldn't have attempted it--it was too much physically--but I wasn't going to miss it. I made it all the way up Salt Lake City's Capitol Hill, with the assistance of so many kind strangers who lent me their arms or pulled me up after I sat on curbs to recover. No Kings. A lot of love.

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Keepapitchinin @keepapitchinin.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

Cooking. Making stir fry, soup, and fruit compote to be sure I don't lose one bite of terribly overpriced produce.

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Keepapitchinin @keepapitchinin.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

If you’re going to put words in a stranger’s mouth, try not to be so dumb.

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Keepapitchinin @keepapitchinin.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

That would have been dreadful (but entirely plausible)! No, it was in the papers of the Church History Library, but not in an obvious place so it had been overlooked in historians' searches.

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Keepapitchinin @keepapitchinin.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

The retained copy of that letter has been found. Want to know what the two great leaders discussed in their final exchange? See www.sltrib.com/religion/202... (Behind a paywall; a $3/month Patreon subscription unlocks it and all other locked content.)

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Commentary: How LDS leader Brigham Young and a great Ute chief strived for peace in a time of war

Research historian Ardis E. Parshall sheds light on the efforts of LDS pioneer-prophet Brigham Young and Ute Chief Wakara to stem 19th-century hostilities in early Utah.

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Keepapitchinin @keepapitchinin.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

The last letter written by Gov. Brigham Young ti Chief Wakara of the Ute Nation (1855), seeking peace between the warring peoples, arrived at Wakara's camp on the day he died. The letter was thrown into Wakara's grave, and its contents lost for all these years.

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Keepapitchinin @keepapitchinin.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Tylenol has nothing to do with autism. But we should check out the Epstein files in case there's anything there about autism. Better safe than sorry!

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Keepapitchinin @keepapitchinin.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

The LDS clerks who marked church membership records with "colored man," as here, almost certainly intended it as discrimination, yet those notations opened the way for them to be remembered and honored by Century of Black Mormons. exhibits.lib.utah.edu/s/century-of...

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Keepapitchinin @keepapitchinin.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

If the "flags were ordered," isn't it the responsibility of the flags themselves to comply, or not?

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

A dear friend of mine who's a multimedia artist has finally, after much encouragement, opened an Etsy shop featuring his jewelry designs and art pieces. He's hoping to make a few small sales so he can get some reviews of his shop. www.etsy.com/shop/marplebot

A geometric freestanding 3D art piece lit up in blue with intricate square and rectangular shapes

Pearlescent acrylic earrings in a geometric design

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Keepapitchinin @keepapitchinin.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

I'm seeing so much online indignation about "Why can that old guy/fat woman/diabetic get the Covid booster when I can't??" that I wonder if human contrariness might actually spur a lot of people to get the booster just because somebody told them they couldn't!

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Keepapitchinin @keepapitchinin.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

I'm unusually pleased with this one!

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Keepapitchinin @keepapitchinin.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

I have a piece in the Salt Lake Tribune at the end of this month telling a significant story using an important "missing" (never published) letter from Brigham Young to a great Ute chief. If Native American history, and the history of slavery, are important to you, you'll want to read it.

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Keepapitchinin @keepapitchinin.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

That is horrifying. I had no idea. I don’t see a single post on that page that has any vestige of humanity.

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Keepapitchinin @keepapitchinin.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

I learned a very long time ago the errors anyone falls into by tarring an entire class with the worst traits of one truly evil member of that class. It’s shocking to see a scholar I have greatly admired fall into that trap, and double down after the most mild of challenges.

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Keepapitchinin @keepapitchinin.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

Another year, another published volume in _On This Day: The Armenian Church Synaxarion_ / Edward G. Mathews Jr. One more volume (December) to come next year!

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Keepapitchinin @keepapitchinin.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

I've forgotten the book, but not this: There's a book about an English boys' school, with an adult school figure named Alcock. The boys referred to him as Nobles.

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Keepapitchinin @keepapitchinin.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

I’d have to check all but one box — for goons who want to say that someone with American great-grandparents is more American than a second- generation American, they don’t realize that they’re telling on themselves by not recognizing just how many points of origin REALLY long-term families have.

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Keepapitchinin @keepapitchinin.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

_A Light in the Northern Sea: Denmark’s Incredible Rescue of Their Jewish Citizens During WWII_ / Tim Brady A newly published history, which undoubtedly speaks to our day, too.

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Keepapitchinin @keepapitchinin.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

_Judeophobia and the New Testament: Texts and Contexts_ / Sarah E. Rollens, et al., eds.

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Keepapitchinin @keepapitchinin.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

and I could tell how restless class members were getting. I finally spoke up and explained pretty much as this quote has it, except I expanded it to city/county action -- I think no one else in the room understood this. 2/2

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Keepapitchinin @keepapitchinin.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

I remember a Relief Society (LDS women's organization) lesson where the teacher went on at great length faulting Joseph Smith for actions the Nauvoo city government had taken in 1844 to destroy a newspaper, and how unconstitutional and anti-American he was. Really weird for a church lesson, 1/2

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Keepapitchinin @keepapitchinin.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

This baby-name website says “Sedatious” is a unisex name meaning “calm or tranquil.” It represents someone who is “peaceful, composed and serene.” Hunh. That *does* fit President Obama ... www.nameslook.com/sedatious

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Keepapitchinin @keepapitchinin.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

To me it feels encouraging — “Never fear. Nothing can erase the reality of what we have achieved, and we will rise again because of course we will. Reach for it.” But yeah. I understand.

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Keepapitchinin @keepapitchinin.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

From all who tried out of history’s tide, Salute for the team that won. And the old Earth smiles at her children’s reach, The wave that carried us up the beach To reach for the shining sun. For the Eagle has landed; tell your children when. Time won’t drive us down to dust again. 6/6

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Keepapitchinin @keepapitchinin.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

We know well what Life can tell: If you would not perish, then grow. And today our fragile flesh and steel Have laid their hands on a vaster wheel With all of the stars to know That the Eagle has landed; tell your children when. Time won’t drive us down to dust again. 5/6

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