Cedar City
303 North 100 East

October 21, 7:00 p.m.
T. J. Leyden’s powerful recent memoir is Skinhead Confessions. The theme of his presentation is the compelling story of his life’s journey into the worlds of racial hate – and back again. Through a slideshow, Leyden looks at his past to teach people how hate destroys and hope rebuilds. After leaving the white power movement, Leyden was a featured speaker at the Clinton White House Conference on Hate and has since trained members of the Pentagon, FBI, DOJ, military, law enforcement, educators, and over 850,000 students about racial tolerance.

October 21, 8:00 p.m.
Richard Turley will discuss Massacre at Mountain Meadows, which he co-authored with Ronald Walker and Glen Leonard. Drawn from documents previously not available to scholars and a careful re-reading of traditional sources, this gripping narrative offers fascinating new insight into why Mormon settlers in isolated southern Utah deceived the emigrant party with a promise of safety and then killed the adults and all but seventeen of the youngest children. Neither a whitewash nor an expose, Massacre at Mountain Meadows provides the clearest and most accurate account of a key event in American religious history.

November 18, 7:00 p.m.
Katharine Coles’ fourth collection of poems, Fault, was released from Red Hen Press in June of 2008.  Previous books include three poetry collections, The Golden Years of the Fourth Dimension, A History of the Garden, and The One Right Touch, and two novels, Fire Season and The Measurable World.  In 2006, she was named to a five-year term as Poet Laureate of Utah.

November 18, 8:00 p.m.
Will Bagley’s latest book is Always a Cowboy: Judge Wilson McCarthy and the Rescue of the Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad. He was a Research Associate at Yale University’s Beinecke Library in 2000 and has served as a historical consultant for National Geographic magazine, the National Park Service, the Bureau of Land Management, the Wyoming State Historical Preservation Office, and the Nevada Humanities Council. He has appeared in more than a dozen documentary films, including the American Experience episode of “The Mormons” on PBS. He is currently a Wallace Stegner Centennial Fellow at the University of Utah.