Utah

The Utah Icelanders are doing a great job preserving their heritage. The first Icelanders arrived in Utah on 07 September 1855. 

 

This video, 'Fire on Ice:  The Story of Icelandic Latter-day Saints at Home and Abroad' was created by Fred Woods. He looks at the challenges Icelandic people faced in the early days of the church in the area and shared correspondences between Icelanders living in Utah.

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Professor Fred Woods at Brigham Young University, Utah, and Kári Bjarnason, Head of the Library of Vestmannaeyjar, Iceland, are working on the history of all 400 Icelanders that left Iceland and came to Utah in the years 1855-1914. They are gathering letters, diaries, history, and all other first and second-hand documents of these 400 people. They want to gather as much information as possible so they can write this important story.