Sharon Price Anderson was born in California in 1946 and lived in Washington, Alabama, New York, Colorado and Germany before attending Brigham Young University where she met her husband Peter. After they were married, they spent a year on the Omaha Indian Reservation in Nebraska and then lived in Ventura County, California. Sharon graduated Magna Cum Laude from BYU in 1970. At that time, the first three of their nine children were three years, two years, and one month old. Surprisingly, their ninth child was born 24 years later, two and a half months after their tenth grandchild. So far they have twenty-three grandchildren.

The Andersons lived in the California Mojave Desert from 1969 to1995 and then moved back to Utah Valley. Here, doing business as Time Lines Etc., Sharon began writing and illustrating history curriculum materials for home-schooled children and other students of all ages.

Sharon’s poems have appeared in the Ensign, BYU Studies, Poetry Panorama, 9-11— Poems for September 11^th and in the 2005 edition of Utah Sings, published every ten years by the Utah State Poetry Society. She has read her poetry at BYU Women’s Conferences and has received numerous state and national awards.

Sharon has learned much from studying the gospel and from serving in the Church. Her callings have included ward and stake Primary president, seminary teacher, Cub Scout den leader, Relief Society counselor and teacher, teacher improvement coordinator, and temple preparation instructor. She currently teaches gospel doctrine in her ward.

Sharon has also written a readers’ theater program based on this book. The program, Sharon, Vermont to Nauvoo’s Hill, has been selected by the Cultural Arts Evaluation Committee of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to receive the Deseret Dramatic Recognition Award.

Photos of Church History Sites courtesy of MormonImages.com

Copyright 2005 Sharon Price Anderson