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English
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The Joseph Smith Memorial Monument and Royalton's "Mormon Affair" : Religion, Community, Memory, and Politics in Progressive Vermont
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Vermont History
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Summer-Fall 2005
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73
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117-151
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In 1905, a Progressive-Era conflict between the two villages Royalton and South Royalton was largely shaped by the erection of the Joseph Smith Memorial Monument. Royalton residents, who felt threatened by the political and economic growth of South Royalton, associated the rising prominence of South Royalton with Mormonism and its new monument. Erekson outlines the controversy over this "Mormon affair" among residents of the villages and reports many of their opinions and reactions to the Latter-day Saint movement