On this episode, we seek to humanize a controversial and fascinating figure of Nauvoo Mormonism. Helen Mar Kimball has been leveraged as an attack against Joseph Smith for decades. The person at the center of those attacks is a wonderful and dynamic woman who was torn with following the prophet and her parents, or living the life of a teenager with her friends. Let’s inject the human element into the historical enigma, Helen Mar Kimball.
Links:
Helen Mar Kimball Smith Whitney autobiographical sketches https://www.boap.org/LDS/Early-Saints/HWhitney.html https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1035&context=usupress_pubs
1881 letter https://faenrandir.github.io/a_careful_examination/helen-mar-kimball-whitney-1881-autobiography/ https://rsc.byu.edu/archived/womans-view-helen-mar-whitneys-reminiscences-early-church-history/11-appendix-one
Life of Heber C. Kimball by Horace Whitney https://archive.org/details/LifeOfHeberC.Kimball/page/n10
JSP Helen Mar Kimball http://josephsmithspolygamy.org/plural-wives-overview/helen-mar-kimball/#link_ajs-fn-id_5-5638
In Sacred Loneliness by Todd Compton https://www.amazon.com/dp/B019RD9ZX8/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1
SUNSTONE!!! https://www.sunstonemagazine.com/sunstoneshortcreek-2019/
MORMON HAPPY HOUR!!! https://www.patreon.com/MormonHappyHour
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