From: owner-aml-list-digest@lists.xmission.com (aml-list-digest) To: aml-list-digest@lists.xmission.com Subject: aml-list-digest V1 #429 Reply-To: aml-list Sender: owner-aml-list-digest@lists.xmission.com Errors-To: owner-aml-list-digest@lists.xmission.com Precedence: bulk aml-list-digest Tuesday, August 21 2001 Volume 01 : Number 429 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2001 21:42:14 -0400 From: "Debra L. Brown" Subject: [AML] Fw: MN Sunstone Explores Mormons on the Internet: Deseret News Sunstone Explores Mormons on the Internet SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH -- The Internet and the changing demographics of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was the topic for the annual Sunstone Symposium, held Saturday at the WestCoast Hotel in Salt Lake City. Characterized as "a fluid space somewhere between the printed and spoken word" panel moderator, Hugo N. Olaiz, a doctoral candidate at the University of California at Berkely, discussed "Virtually Mormon: Mormons at the Internet." Olaiz suspects the demographics of the church members using the Internet are younger and more liberal than the general population of the Mormon church. He sees church net users seeming to base their judgement more on content, rather than on the author's status. General manager of LDS.net, an unofficial church web site, Scot Denhalter said the anonymity of the Web gives users a kind of equality. " There's simply no assurance of what you read on the internet is scholarly or true," Denhalter cautioned. "Web users can't hear your tone of voice in a message and the validity of what you're reading is always in question." Web staffs often experience manpower limitations that create some mediocre content. "Three people can't handle the big dreams you may have," he said of his own Web site company. Olaiz would like to see a study done on the Church and Web usage. Panelists agreed genealogical work is the best and has limitless opportunities on the Internet. However, they did express hope that the Church would soon let wards and stake put Web sites up again. The Church asked for all unofficial web sites taken down last winter until some standards could be established. Panelist, Mark Fisher, co-founder and Web manager of Mormon Links, classified all LDS Web users into six categories. He believes LDS Web sites are needed for children, new members and investigators. A fourth panelist, Scott G. Kenney, founding publisher and editor of Sunstone Magazine, said an intriguing Web site would be one relating to Church history. Kenney is currently working on a new Sunstone Web site on Mormon history, http://www.saintswithouthalos.com. Source: Sunstone panel looks at LDS Web use Deseret News 12Aug01 I4 http://www.deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,295017233,00.html By Lynn Arave: Deseret News staff writer >From Mormon-News: Mormon News and Events Forwarding is permitted as long as this footer is included Mormon News items may not be posted to the World Wide Web sites without permission. Please link to our pages instead. For more information see http://www.MormonsToday.com/ - - AML-List, a mailing list for the discussion of Mormon literature http://www.xmission.com/~aml/aml-list.htm ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2001 21:44:04 -0400 From: "Debra L. Brown" Subject: [AML] Fw: MN Benson Gristmill Pageant Tells Little-Known Tooele Story: Salt Lake Tribune 11Aug01 US UT SLC D6 Benson Gristmill Pageant Tells Little-Known Tooele Story STANSBURY PARK, UTAH -- The Old Benson gristmill came to life with light, music and sound as a panoramic sunset gave way to the Big Dipper for the sixth annual Benson Gristmill Pageant. The 135-member costumed cast told the history of hardship and conflict in Tooele with horse-drawn wagons, local livestock and a three-story wooden mill constructed in the early 1850's. "If we are actors in a drama, as the Bard would have us believe, then certainly Latter-day Saints have produced a script and players as dramatic as there have ever been," wrote Carl Arrington in a 1977 New Era magazine story that traced the roots of pageants and road shows held throughout Utah. "The Mormon story is a complete drama with characters, conflicts, action, morality, tragedy and comedy," Arrington wrote. Christie Steadman, the pageant producer, said the idea for the Tooele production came in 1996 while they were looking for ways to celebrate Utah's centennial statehood. "We decided to write it ourselves around the events in Toole County history," she said. "The Lee family, some of the first settlers of Tooele County, had a lot of information and we took the literary license to make it into a story line." "It took us a year to write it. We were rehearsing the first scenes as we wrote the end," she said. The pageant is sponsored by Tooele County and the Benson Gristmill Historic Site and tells stories of the Pony Express, the election of the Liberal Party that overturned the Mormon control of the community, Goshute Indians, the Gold Rush and the ethnic origins of the miners and workers of the Tooele Valley Railroad. A highlight in the production is a story of the 1892 Polynesian Pioneer Day in the settlement of Iosepa. Music for the pageant was written by Gary Swan and the two-hour-long pageant is narrated by writer, Maxine Grimm. It begins Thursday night at 8:45 p.m. and will run until Monday. Sources: Pioneer Utah Comes to Life in Pageant Salt Lake Tribune 11Aug01 D6 http://www.sltrib.com/08112001/utah/121417.htm By Tom Wharton: Salt Lake Tribune >From Mormon-News: Mormon News and Events Forwarding is permitted as long as this footer is included Mormon News items may not be posted to the World Wide Web sites without permission. Please link to our pages instead. For more information see http://www.MormonsToday.com/ - - AML-List, a mailing list for the discussion of Mormon literature http://www.xmission.com/~aml/aml-list.htm ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2001 09:37:42 -0600 From: "Eric R. Samuelsen" Subject: RE: [AML] Medved's Arguments When we talk about that mythic beast, Hollywood, everyone leaves out the = most important motivating factor. Hollywood, at its most reductive, is a = community of people who want to make movies. That's the bottom line. Do they want to make money? Of course, because that's how you keep score, = but also, most importantly, because that's what makes it possible for you = to make more movies. Do you want an Oscar? Of course, because an Oscar = generally ensures that you're going to be in demand, and you're therefore = going to make more movies. Do you do coke? Certainly; it energizes you = to keep making movies (you lie to yourself).=20 I know this sounds mundane, but it's also true. What motivates Hollywood = is the desire to make movies, preferably good ones. If they're now making = more PG-13 than R, it's because that business decision seems likely to = make it possible to make more movies in the future. =20 Eric Samuelsen - - AML-List, a mailing list for the discussion of Mormon literature http://www.xmission.com/~aml/aml-list.htm ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2001 10:08:48 -0500 From: Jonathan Langford Subject: [AML] More Info on Eugene England Folks, I've had several people post information on Gene England's memorial service this Saturday, apparently not realizing that this information was already included in the composite post from Ronn Blankenship. Rather than continue to repost this information, let me simply draw everyone's attention to Ronn's post. (If you have additional information not contained in this post, then of course you should feel free to send that information to the List.) Jonathan Langford AML-List Moderator - - AML-List, a mailing list for the discussion of Mormon literature http://www.xmission.com/~aml/aml-list.htm ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2001 09:42:14 -0700 From: "Jeff Savage" Subject: Re: [AML] LDS Booksellers Convention - ----- Original Message ----- From: "D. Michael Martindale" > > I learned about the series of books that will be coming out based on > _God's Army_. The first is the novelization of the film, written by > Geoffrey Card, son of Orson Scott, due out in two months. After that two > more books are slated for next year which start a series of books about > each main character from the film: _Sister Fronk's Story_, written by > Deanne Blackhurst, and _Elder Dalton's Story_, written by J. Scott > Bronson. Just as a fun FYI, Deanne (Savage) Blackhurst, who is writing the Sister Fronk novel, is my sister. So we have a tie between Excel and Covenant. Jeffrey S Savage - - AML-List, a mailing list for the discussion of Mormon literature http://www.xmission.com/~aml/aml-list.htm ------------------------------ End of aml-list-digest V1 #429 ******************************