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 because of controlling sect leaders who try to limit followers’ exposure to the outside world.
The library is expected to open in March 2016, Washington County Library System director Joel Tucker said. The plan is to put the library in an old schoolhouse the center of town, near 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.
From Public library set to open in polygamous community in Utah | The Salt Lake Tribune
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