Virginia Sorensen, ca. 1960. Photograph by Dorothy Cooper USHS collections
A "Visitable Past": Virginia Sorensen's Sanpete BY EDWARD A. GEARY
July 1922 a fictional expatriate Utahn named Kate Alexander, the protagonist of Virginia Sorensen's The Evening and the Morning, awakens to the ringing bells oftheManti Pioneer Day celebration and expresses the wish, "if only a great poet could be O N
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Dr. Gearv is professor of EngHsh at Brigham Young Universitv. A version of this paper was presented at the 1989 annual meeting of the Utah State Historical Society.
