Under
the Banner of Heaven by Jon Krakauer, 2003, Excerpts
Today, no less than
in the nineteenth century, the Hill Cumorah is one of the holiest sites in all
of Mormondom, and sooner or later most Latter-day Saints make a pilgrimage
here. A mound of glacial scrapings left behind after the last ice age, it humps
up no more than a couple hundred feet above the surrounding cornfields, and
most of Cumorah is shrouded in a gloomy tangle of vegetation.
All the same, the
modest drumlin is the highest landform in the vicinity, and from its crest one
can glimpse the office towers of downtown Rochester, twenty miles distant,
shimmering through the mid-summer haze. The summit is adorned with an American
flag and an imposing statue of the angel Moroni.
Hill Cumorah Pageant
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