Unknown Teichert Painting Discovered in Utah High School

Everyone dreams of a great find when they dig through their attics and basements and that is what the director of the Springville Museum of Art found in a dirty, folded canvas in the Richfield High School safe. Vern Swanson and associate museum director, Sharon Gray, traveled to more than 100 Utah public schools to inventory art works as part of the museum's statewide Art Partnership Project. On August 24 they discovered "the art find of the decade." The dirty canvas was an oil painting by Utah-born artist Minerva Teichert depicting an American Indian on horseback about to slay a bison.

Memorial Service Held for Eugene England

Hundreds of friends, students, and family members of Eugene England gathered Saturday, August 25, in the Provo Tabernacle to pay tribute to the writer and scholar. England, 68, died of brain cancer Friday August 17, and was buried the following day in a private ceremony.

Bachman Credits Church with Keeping Him Alive

The Guess Who has just completed a 29 Canadian reunion tour and they are now ready to hit the United States and eight more Canadian venues. To the surprise of those who mock aging rockers reuniting for nostalgia tours, the shows were a hit with both fans and critics.

Artist Restore's Cedar City's Old Rock Church Baptistry Mural

For nearly 30 years former BYU art professor Max Dickson Weaver has looked after a unique mural painted in the baptistry of Cedar City's historic LDS Chapel, the Old Rock Church. Weaver first discovered the mural in 1974, and has since spent many hours caring for and restoring the mural, which has been threatened several times by water damage and by the needs of the local congregation.

LDSMusicians.com Releases Second Music CD

LDSMusicians.com, an Internet site for independent LDS Musicians to collaborate, vent their ideas, successes and failures, releases its second collections CD. The CD, titled LDStyles 2 features a variety of lesser known, but rather accomplished artists including, Jeff Goldman, Wayne Burton, Dana Bishop Sanders, Matt Armstrong, Michele Baer, Mike Mercado, W. Alex. Mackey, III, Tucker. M. Maxfield, FiddleSticks, Michael DeShazer, David Edwards, Jim Anderson, Janet Clayton Sloan, LaDena &Renee, Michael Priddis, Fast Sundae, and Eric Endres.

Keeping Our Bearings in Times of Suffering

How can we provide comfort, consoling, and reassurance to those who are suffering? What can we say that will provide lasting help to those facing adversity? Wayne Brickey provides answers needed both by sufferers and by those seeking ways to console them in "Making Sense of Suffering" (Deseret Book, $15.95). He answers such questions as "Why is suffering inevitable?" "What does it mean to be 'faithful in tribulation'?" "What good does it do me to suffer?" "How might I react to the suffering of others?"

'Joseph Smith's Favorite Music' at Washington DC Visitors' Center

On behalf of The Washington, DC Temple Visitors' Center, I invite you to an evening of inspiring music and testimony with Brother Todd Thatcher and the Nauvoo Legionnaires, entitled "Joseph Smith's Favorite Music" on Saturday, September 8, 2001 at 7:00 pm at the Washington, DC Temple Visitors' Center. The event is free and open to the public.

'The Divine Mission of the Prophet Joseph Smith'

On behalf of The Washington, DC Temple Visitors' Center of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, we invite you to a special evening of music and testimony, "The Divine Mission of The Prophet Joseph Smith" on Sunday, September 9, 2001 at 7:00 p.m. at the Visitors' Center. The fireside features the Honorable Robert Bennett, United States Senator from Utah and coincides with the 160th anniversary of Joseph Smith's legendary trek from Kirtland, Ohio to Far West, Missouri, known as "Zion's Camp".

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