?Untold Nauvoo Stories? features dinner, story-telling, fiddle music and reenactment

NAUVOO, Ill. ? The Nauvoo Historical Society, the Joseph Smith Historic Site, Historic Nauvoo, the Nauvoo Tourism Office and the city of Nauvoo are hosting the second annual Untold Nauvoo Stories Gathering on Feb. 3-4 at the Joseph Smith Historic Site visitors? center in Nauvoo, Ill.

The event promotes the sharing of lesser known accounts of people and events that make Nauvoo a significant element of the nation?s story.

Its focus is on enriching understanding and deepening appreciation of the personalities, conditions and social currents that converged in this small Western Illinois town in the middle of the 19th century and shaped the decades that followed.

The program includes stories about the Native-American, Mormon, Icarian, Catholic and wine-making families whose narratives intertwine across more than two centuries.

In addition to story-telling sessions, there will be a banquet with cowboy poetry and down-home fiddle music followed by a key-note presentation on changing vision for today?s ?Williamsburg of the Midwest.?

Information about the stories to be shared and the story-tellers who will present them can be found at www.untoldnauvoostories.com

Registration for the gathering is $20 which includes the Friday evening dinner.

Places can be reserved online at untoldnauvoostories.com or by calling 217-219-1188.

The Untold Nauvoo Stories gathering is timed to coincide with the annual commemoration of the Mormon exodus from Nauvoo in February of 1846.

The re-enactment will take place on the morning of Feb. 4.