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Wednesday, September 15, 2021 • Vol. 130, No. 36 • Free
Festival of Colors to return
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Festivalgoers throw cornstarch colors into the air as a band performs during the Holi Festival of Colors held March 30, 2019, at the Sri Sri Radha Krishna Temple in Spanish Fork. SPANISH FORK — The countdown has begun for the Spanish Fork’s popular chant and dance party on Sept. 25 & 26, 2021. After a COVID caused hiatus of 18 months, the Festival of Colors is back live in Spanish Fork at the Krishna Temple. The event is located at Krishna Temple, 8628 S. State Road, Spanish Fork, UT 84660. Admission is $7 online, adults Kids 12 and under are free. A rain or shine event. Times are Saturday 10 a.m. – 5 p.m.; Sunday 11 a.m. – 4 p.m. The worldwide phenomenon of Color Events and Color Runs started right from Spanish Fork in 2012. Because of its rich history and the awesome backdrop of the Krishna Temple architecture, no imitators have surpassed this epic event in terms of popularity and attendance. As well as massive color throws on the hour, there will be non-stop entertainment from great Mantra Bands (Namrock, Ananda Groove, Mikey Pauker, Maha Mantra Band with Joss and Johanna), DJs, rap artists, Bollypop dancers (Malini, Akansha, Sonali, and Sarika), and more.
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A festivalgoer crowd surfs as a band performs during the Holi Festival of Colors held March 30, 2019, at the Sri Sri Radha Krishna Temple in Spanish Fork. Continuous yoga classes, great vegan/veg- bounce houses, animals are the components of etarian cuisine from seven different food con- this unique, not-to-be-missed event. Web: www.festivalofcolorsusa.com. cessions, crafts booths, a children’s play area,
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Descendants of Bessey to be honored Anthony Wayne and Susan Matilda Lane Bessey and their descendants will be honored at the 33rd Annual Commemoration of the “Settlement of Sanpete,” Saturday, September 25, 2021. This event, held at Manti, Sanpete County’s first settlement, is sponsored by the Manti Camp of the Daughters of the Utah Pioneers. The public is invited to attend. The Besseys arrived in Manti, Utah, accompanied by Anthony’s recently widowed mother, Thankful Sterns Bessey, in 1857. Here Anthony carried on the rich tradition of his Pilgrim/Puritan Ancestry. He was very active in both civic and church affairs, which included being a captain of carvery in the Black Hawk War, Mayor of Manti, and a regular worker in the Manti Temple when it first opened in 1888 under the Presidency of Daniel Wells. The ”Besse” ancestor who immigrated to Massachusetts from England in 1655 was a “freeman” and part of the Plymouth Colony. Later generations participated in the War of Independence as minute-men in the storied Alarm at Lexington, April 1775. The schedule of events for Saturday, Sept. 25th: 8 – 9:15 a.m. – Registration & Information on afternoon tours. 9:30 – A short “Laying of the Wreath” @ the Manti Cemetery (Highway 89, W. of the Manti Temple). 10:30 — A Bessey Family Program at the Manti Red Church Chapel (300 S Main) followed by Noon — DUP Luncheon at the Red Church Cultural Hall 1:30 p.m. – 3 p.m. — Tours of the Bessey homes, gravesites, the Patten House Museum with the Beach Cabin, and other historic sites. For ore information contact Jane Braithwaite @ 435-835-5841 or (janebraithwaite23@gmail.com)
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Student brings museum collection to life Football is back again! Aspiring conservator I sifting forgeries from authentic artifacts
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ove over, Indiana Jones. In her undergraduate work authenticating the Mesoamerican greenstone collection at BYU’s Museum of Peoples and Cultures, BYU anthropology student Chloe Burkey developed an eagle eye for the microscopic details that distinguish authentic artifacts from forged ones.
For example, the order of incisions on a sculpture. “With an Olmec figurine,” Burkey explained, “they would have drilled out the corners of the eyes and mouth first to make it easier to dig into the stone and then notched out the rest of CHRISTIE the features. But some of ALLEN the figurines I saw at the museum were notched out and then drilled afterward, or not even drilled in both corners, which told me something was off.” Burkey is an aspiring art conservator who has been fascinated with Mesoamerica since childhood, intrigued,
she said, by “an entire culture that developed separately from anywhere else in the world, where everything looks so different but is also very advanced.” So she jumped at the chance to work with her supervisor, anthropology postdoctoral fellow Marion Forest, in the first effort to systematically authenticate BYU’s Mesoamerican greenstone artifacts. Most of the 191 pieces Burkey and Forest examined came from private collectors and were donated before Mexico ratified an international treaty
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t’s that time of year again. Annual, recurring, football fever is as predictable as the sun coming up and the cows coming home. And it’s back. The high schools, colleges and the professionals are all in full MERRILL swing playing OGDEN with the odd shaped ball. My wife and I met at BYU. We follow the Cougars and
attend games when we can. It was a relief to be in the stadium in Provo last Saturday night and finally, much to my surprise, get a football win against the Utes! I am glad for the University of Utah and their successes. I really am. I’m just not so glad that they have beat BYU the past nine games in the series. I was starting to think that I was going to have to change my fasting and praying for Please see OGDEN, Page A2
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