| Show head boards flour boxes blinds and the usual houses was frequently in produce Payment The Christensens moved to Ephraim in 1870 and immediately put their roots down deep He purchased about fifteen acres of property and when land opened for homesteading in 1875 he filed on 160 acres in Manasseh west of Ephraim He builtsubstantial cabin of sawed logs granary and corrals for cattle The cabin which is still in good condition will be moved to the Historic Square in Ephraim during 1998 He dug ditches cleaned and plowed his land then planted about one hundred acres in wheat oats potatoes and alfalfa The crops were good except for drought and grasshoppers CCA began painting on canvas and usually did this in the attic of his home or in the granary The income derived was meager so he returned to grubbing sagebrush digging ditches and the like With Dan Weggeland an artist friend from Norway he recreated incidents from the Bible and the Book of Mormon These culminated inscene of Joseph Smith receiving the gold plates The paintings were on canvas pieces that were sewn together then placed on poles that were attached to rollers They moved vertically to show one scene attime CCA delighted in giving lectures to explain each scene In the mid-seventies CCA beganseries of paintings depicting the early history of the Latter-day Saints This was an ambitious undertaking as each painting was six and one-half by ten feet These were sewn ontobacking to be exhibited asscroll on rollers He created twenty-three scenes All but one of these have been preserved and are known as the Mormon Panorama Events from Church history had been shown in paintings from 1845 but CCApanorama was the first to depict Joseph Smithvision of the Father and the Son George Manwaring young piano and organ 98 |
