Arrington Lecture features Givens
LOGAN — "The Prophecy of Enoch as Restoration Blueprint" is the topic of Terryl Givens' presentation at the 18th annual Leonard J. Arrington Mormon History Lecture at 7 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 20, at the Logan Tabernacle, 50 N. Main St., Logan. The event is free and open to the public.
Givens is the Bostwick chairman of English and professor of literature and religion at the University of Richmond in Virginia, and is the author of several books.
The Arrington Mormon History Lecture is hosted by USU's Special Collections and Archives and University Libraries.
For information, see library.usu.edu/specol/sub3.php.
2013 Film Festival Call for Entries
OREM — The 2013 LDS Film Festival is Jan. 23-26 and deadline for submissions is Nov. 9.
The festival includes $2,000 in awards and four categories: feature film exhibition for films 60 minutes and longer, short film competition for films 20 minutes and shorter, special screenings for films 20-60 minutes and a 24-hour filmmaking marathon.
For information, see www.ldsfilmfestival.org.
Send it in: Mission Reunion Notices
October general conference is just around the corner, and that means many LDS missions will be holding reunions around that time. Brief reunion notices will be published by the Deseret News on Tuesday, Oct. 2, as a public service.
Missions may submit their notices by going to www.deseretnews.com and clicking on "Faith" and then on "Missionary Reunions," or going to www.deseretnews.com/reunions.
Please follow the instructions for submitting the notices and please be sure to include all required information.
The deadline for publication in the Deseret News is noon on Wednesday, Sept. 26. Notices that arrive after the deadline will not be printed in the paper but will be published on deseretnews.com. Deseret News reserves the right to edit notices for content and length.
Knight family Reunion in St. George
ST. GEORGE — More than 350 of the 13,000 descendants of the Mormon pioneers Joseph and Polly Peck Knight attended this year's Knight Family Reunion in St. George June 8-9. The culmination of the reunion was a re-dedication of the restored granite foundation of Lydia Knight's gravestone located in the St. George cemetery. The 200th anniversary of Lydia's birthday was on June 9. Lydia was the daughter-in-law of Joseph and Polly Knight.
After registration, family attendees were given a bingo card to get to know other "cousins." Four different humanitarian service projects were offered. A pieced quilt was set up for sewing on heart buttons to coincide with the theme "Hearts Knit Together in Love."
Joseph Knight Sr. was a friend of Joseph Smith, the first prophet of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and helped support the Prophet during the translation of the Book of Mormon. Both Joseph Knight Sr. and Newel Knight are mentioned in The Doctrine and Covenants in Sections 12 and 23.
Reunion highlights included workshops on Knight descendants Jesse Knight, Anna Knight, Polly Knight and Joseph Knight Jr.; the dedication of a plaque for Samuel Knight in Santa Clara, Utah; a memorial at the Mountain Meadows Massacre site; and a fireside with St. George Utah Temple President Bruce C. Hafen and his wife, Marie, at the St. George Tabernacle.
Performing LDS temple work was a part of the Knight Family Reunion experience for one group. En route to the reunion, a small group of couples visited three LDS temples in three states — all in one day. Beginning at 6 a.m. on June 7, the group attended sessions in the Mesa Arizona Temple, the Las Vegas Nevada Temple and the St. George Utah Temple.
Over the years, many branches of the Knight family took part in a number of important early LDS events. The Palmer family's line descends through Newel Knight and his second wife, Lydia Goldthwaite. Their daughter, Sally, married Zemira Palmer, who was 15 years old when he marched with the Mormon Battalion. Zemira's son Alma accepted the call from Brigham Young to settle the Snowflake, Ariz., area. His son, Alma Jordan Palmer, moved to Mesa, Ariz., in 1920. Grant Lewis Palmer Sr. was born in 1923. His children are Grant, Winston, Monty, Jonathan, David, Lana, Lila and Cary, three of whom attended the reunion.
For more information about the Knight family, see www.josephknightfamily.org.
— Lila Palmer Shoemaker