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Nauvoo Summer Events 2007

June 5 - 16 BYU Living Legends touring group will be her to give performances every night at 7:00 Pm in the JSA Auditorium. More information coming later. This is a first for Nauvoo for this group, one of the leading performing groups at BYU.

June 19 - 30 BYU Ballroom Dance Team will give performances every evening at 7:00 PM in the JSA Auditorium. More information coming later.

July 6 - August 3 Nauvoo Pageant Plan on coming and bringing your friends to any of the 21 performances. More information later.

Nauvoo Remembered Historical Vignettes
In six vignettes at various sites of Historic Nauvoo, visitors can see selected pageant actors in period costume depicting actual people and events, as they perform snippets of history. Each of these six sketches are performed twice weekly (see the descriptions and calendar below).

Trail of Hope - Thursday and Saturday mornings. Small groups will depart from the Seventies Hall on Parley Street every few minutes from 8:00-8:45 a.m.
Visitors can stroll down Parley Street to the river's edge to see those pioneers who walked that road in 1846 and listen to their touching stories of leaving their homes and temple to head West.
Performance dates are July 7, 12, 14, 19, 21, 26, 28, and August 2.

King Follett Discourse - Wednesday and Friday afternoons at 4:00 p.m. in the West Grove (north of the pageant site) -
The Prophet Joseph Smith will share portions of one of his last major discourses, a funeral sermon given in honor of Brother King Follett. In this speech the Prophet shared profound insights on the nature of God and the immortality of man.
Performance dates are July 11, 13, 18, 20, 25, 27, August 1 and 3.

Women of Nauvoo - Tuesday and Thursday afternoons at 4:00 p.m in the Relief Society Garden by the Historic Nauvoo Visitors Center.
Emma Smith, Eliza R. Snow, Ellen Briggs Douglas, and other sisters of 1840s Nauvoo share their experiences with and love for the Relief Society. This society, begun with a handful of sisters under the direction of a prophet of God, has since grown to be the largest women's organization in the world.
Performance dates are July 10, 12, 17, 19, 24, 26, 31 and August 2.

Letters of Emma and Joseph - Wednesday and Friday afternoons at 1:00 p.m. near the Mansion House at the corner of Water and Main Streets
Narrated by Lucy Mack Smith and read by Emma and Joseph, these actual letters of the prophet and his beloved wife, Emma, offer poignant insights into their lives and their relationship as husband and wife.
Performance dates are July 11, 13, 18, 20, 25, 27, August 1 and 3.

Go Ye into All the World - Thursday and Saturday afternoons at 1:00 p.m. in the Seventies Hall on Parley Street (at the head of the Trail of Hope)
Visitors are invited to laugh and ponder with Elders Parley P. Pratt, Wilford Woodruff, John Taylor, Heber C. Kimball and Brigham Young as they share their missionary experiences and their testimonies.
Performance dates are July 7, 12, 14, 19, 21, 26, 28, and Aug. 2.

Youth of Zion - Tuesday afternoon at 1:00 p.m. and Saturday afternoon at 4:00 p.m. across from the Post Office on Main Street. - All ages will enjoy the humor and audience participation opportunities in this vignette about the young people of Old Nauvoo. Mary and Caroline Rollins, George Q. Cannon, and Robert Dennison share with visitors their stories of bravery, testimony, and good old-fashioned fun.
Performance dates are July 7, 10, 14, 17, 21, 24, 28, 31.

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