I'm Hello and welcome back to another episode of the Year of Pallagamy podcast.

I'm your host, Lindsay, and I think I've hit the Holy Grail.

I know I've had so many great historians on here, like Claudia Bushman, and Mike Quinn, and so many others.

But this is the historian I've been trying and begging and pleading with for years to come on the podcast.

And I'm so honored to have Connell O'Donovan on the podcast.

Conall, can you say hello?

Hello, everyone.

It's good to be here.

So, Connell, I don't know if you've listened to the last two episodes, but I basically

fan girl you the entire time.

I talk about how important your work is. And I mean that so

sincerely that the research and the history that you've done, the excavating these stories is so

priceless to this community. I don't think that there is ever a way that we can repay you. You have done

so much work for us. So I'm just

fan-girling to you in person because I get to do that. But why don't you tell us about yourself

a little bit? Give us some background on who you are and how you even got involved in researching

this stuff. Well, my name's Connell and I'm a double Virgo with a Scorpio Moon.

I'm a native Utah born in Syracuse, early raised in Syracuse, Utah.

But actually, most of my childhood was spent in Fairbanks, Alaska.

And then as a teen, one of my coping mechanisms for being in a closet of a gay team

was that I became very fascinated with early Blackmore and history and spent a good deal of time at the

old LDS Church Archives when it was in the church office building researching that topic.

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