High Wholly Daze ...
Friday July 24, 2026 ... it's been 179 years since the mormons invaded the Great Salt Lake Valley. Yep, them's my people. I am through no fault of my own, a direct descendant of the mormon pioneers that were escaping ethnic cleansing by our United States government and local populations of straight up anti-mormon sentiment leading to violence and the deaths of mormon leader Joseph Smith and his brother Hyrum along with several other leaders that were lucky to escape alive. June 1844 Carthage, Illinois and it occurred to Brother Brigham that it might be time to pack up the faithful and beat feets to parts outside of the U.S. at the time. Brigham felt that being outside the jurisdiction of the United States and in an isolated and mostly unpopulated Great Basin could be ideal for his followers to sink roots and as any Vulcan might tell you ... "live long and prosper." Which of course the mormons did. No to the question I can hear from all the way out here in the Mojave, ...