Episode 261: The Raid on Short Creek, Part I: The Principle
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Episode 261: The Raid on Short Creek, Part I: The Principle

B2Upper-intermediateJune 15, 202629 min

To understand the 1953 raid on polygamous families living in Short Creek, we have to go back even further and understand where the community of Short Creek came from, and the theological controversies that led fundamentalist Mormon families to settle there.

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There's an opening to an episode from the fourth season of the original Twilight Zone that I absolutely love. The episode itself, Valley of Shadow, is overall pretty unremarkable, definitely nowhere near the iconic status of To Serve Man or Time Enough at Last.

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The story revolves around a man driving through an out of the way small town when his dog jumps out of the car to chase a cat, and he then stumbles upon an earth-shattering secret, and it all gets very sci-fi very fast. But like I said, Rod Serling's opening narration for this episode is great.

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I can't do the voice, so I'm not going to try, but it goes like this. You've seen them. Little towns tucked away far from the main roads. seen them but have you thought about them? What do the people in these places do? Why

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