This is a lecture Liz Lemon Swindle gave in August of 2005 at "This Is The Place Heritage Park" at the mouth of Emigration Canyon in Salt Lake City, Utah.

For more information about "This Is The Place Heritage Park" visit there website.

Early in Liz Lemon Swindle’s career she worked as a set designer and painter for the Osmond Studios television production company. In the early 1980s she tutored under renowned wildlife artist Nancy Glazier and soon after established her own impressive reputation as a wildlife painter.

In 1988 Mrs. Swindle submitted a portrait of children to the National Arts for the Parks competition and received the coveted Founders' Favorite award. She realized then that there was an audience for her portrait painting and by the early 1990s she had devoted herself to the topic closest to her heart: her faith. A one-woman show of her Christian art traveled to cities nationwide in the summer of 1997 and a book of her paintings She Shall Bring Forth a Son, was published in 1998.

She and her husband, Jon Swindle, have five children.