SMITHFIELD – The Smithfield Historical Society is excited to bring in retired Institute and seminary teacher Kenny Mays to speak about Smithfield settlers from Britain on Saturday, Oct. 11, at 7 p.m.
The presentation will be at the Smithfield Senior Citizen Center located at 375 Canyon Rd. His remarks will focus on the “LDS British missions from 1830 to 1840.”
An hour before his presentation there will be an exhibit of his photographic collection from Britain.
Mays earned degrees in organizational communication from University of Utah and Brigham Young University and worked for Procter & Gamble in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
He taught early morning seminary and was a seminary principal, Church Education System coordinator, instructional designer, and institute teacher before retiring from the Salt Lake University Institute adjacent to the University of Utah.
Mays has traveled to numerous Book of Mormon and Church History sites and taken thousands of historical images that have been used in magazines, journals, books, and digital publications.
He has also been a tour guide at many church sites and taught at BYU Education Week. For 10 years Kenny authored the “Picturing History” feature in the Mormon Times section of the Deseret News, providing images of and commentary about Church historic sites. Many of his images can be found at catalog.churchofjesuschrist.org.
Four prominent missionaries in Britain from that time were Wilford Woodruff, Heber C. Kimball, Willard Richards and Brigham Young.