We love our fan mail! Especially when they contain juicy historical details, which is why we’re introducing MAIL BAG EPISODES, where we sometimes share those tidbits on an episode.
Lindsay and Bryan usually find enough rabbit holes on their own but sometimes they get pushed into them without warning (don’t worry, it’s less dangerous than it sounds). Thanks to a listener, they investigate the very curious case of Mary Robinson, whose sad ending—she apparently died by suicide by cutting her throat—appeared in a brief notice in the Nauvoo Neighbor. What do we make of this? Buckle up, because Mary’s story is just act one of the Robinsons’ neighborhood. They also discuss the Beer Bishop and mission president Joseph Robinson who got pretty frisky at times, both in the “not-authorized but authorized” and the “really, no we mean it this time, not authorized” periods of post-Manifesto polygamy.
SHOWNOTES: