Companion Essay
SUDDEN DAY: A Companion Essay Songs from the Nauvoo Expositor Walking Through the Album for Those Who Cannot Hear “The remedy can never be applied, unless the disease is known.” — Nauvoo Expositor, June 7, 1844 Introduction: One Newspaper, One Day, One Story On June 7, 1844, a group of former believers published a single issue of a newspaper in Nauvoo, Illinois. Three days later, it was destroyed by order of the man it exposed. Seventeen days after that, he was dead. The newspaper was the Nauvoo Expositor. The man was Joseph Smith, founder of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. ...