Public library set to open in polygamous community
Source: Associated Press
Public library set to open in polygamous community
Updated 12:38 am, Wednesday, November 25, 2015
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A public library is set to open next year in a polygamous town on the Utah-Arizona border that hasn't had one for decades due to controlling sect leaders who try to limit followers' exposure to the outside world.
The library is expected to open in March 2016, said Washington County Library System director Joel Tucker, according to The Salt Lake Tribune (http://bit.ly/1Nqlt0t). The plan is to put the library between the public school and town hall in Hildale, Utah.
The community is dominated by a polygamous sect led by jailed leader Warren Jeffs. He and other sect leaders try to limit members' exposure to the outside world by prohibiting Internet and books.
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The community used to have a library on the Arizona side of the town in Colorado City, but it was shuttered in the late 1990s when Jeffs took over the sect, said former sect member Isaac Wyler.
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