Perhaps you’ve heard: it’s been cold in the midwest this year. Really cold. For the lucky among us, this is merely an inconvenience; for the unlucky, the cold is miserable and dangerous. When the cold lingers into February, it becomes downright vindictive: where we should see crocuses push through the soil, another blanket of snow settles. Here in St. Louis, at the border of the continental and subtropical zones, we’re comparatively balmy: the radio-announced temperatures in Quincy, Illinois, just a few hours upriver, are often ten degrees colder than ours.
But for Latter-day Saints in the metro area, this year’s February snow brings with it the historical memory of long-ago February just a few hundred miles away -- not far from Quincy, in fact.
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