Palmyra

Carolyn Cole/Los Angeles Times
Lee (left) and Don Preston (third from left) and their children, including John (second from left), take part in this year’s Hill Cumorah Pageant, an annual Mormon religious reenactment of the story of Jesus and the Book of Mormon in Palmyra, N.Y., on July 12.

Cumorah drama putting LDS faith on center stage

PALMYRA, N.Y. -- Don and Lee Preston, who teach at an international school near Shanghai, were sitting under a gaily striped tent on a recent Saturday in a field near the birthplace of the Mormon prophet Joseph Smith, helping entertain a group of Mormon teenagers.

The Prestons could have gone home to Arizona for their vacation -- "but we wanted to do something more meaningful with our summer than eating in restaurants and seeing movies," said Lee, 43.

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