For the first time in its 80-year history, Hill Cumorah Pageant will be off-limits to — who would have guessed? — full-time Mormon missionaries

(Courtesy Rulon Simmons)
Charles Bruce was an athlete from Halifax, Nova Scotia, playing the role of Samuel the Lamanite in the Hill Cumorah Pageant in the 1990s.

(Courtesy Rulon Simmons) Charles Bruce was an athlete from Halifax, Nova Scotia, playing the role of Samuel the Lamanite in the Hill Cumorah Pageant in the 1990s.

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