Comments on: A Note about Brigham’s Beard

By: Researcher

Researcher — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 22:26:04 +0000

How funny to prefer one of your ancestor's beards over another. I think I would generally vote for no beard, but who am I to say? Sometimes a bit of stubble can be rather attractive. I won't mention the conclusions that certain social scientists came to, but here's a link to the article summarizing their findings in the Telegraph.

By: Mina

Mina — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 21:56:11 +0000

The beard of bees is inspirational.

By: WVS

WVS — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 20:46:53 +0000

That center photo of the three looks like it was used in the PBS doc. And given how long it takes me to put up any significant facial hair, I’d say it took BY a couple of years to get the long one. Jokes aside, imagine the gunk that got in there. Ugh. My dad used to say that his grandfather’s beard picked up all kinds of nasty stuff. If you didn’t wash and comb it every evening they could be awful.

By: Screaming Nephite

Screaming Nephite — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 19:54:31 +0000

Brigham’s beard rules. It’s better than Karl Marx’s beard it’s better than Abe Lincoln’s beard. Except for God and Jesus, it’s the best beard known to man.

By: Justin

Justin — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 19:34:40 +0000

My link to the bee beard portrait (credit: Matsby) didn’t go through.

In any event, I am reminded of Clarissa Young Spencer’s reminiscence: “The family used to eat an early breakfast, but I always waited until ten o’clock when Father had his, so that I might be served with him. In those days he wore quite a long beard, and it was my duty to tie a bib over it in order to protect it from stray crumbs.”

By: Justin

Justin — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 19:20:52 +0000

The beard of bees photograph is here.

By: sister blah 2

sister blah 2 — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 19:03:41 +0000

kevinf: ha!

By: sister blah 2

sister blah 2 — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 19:03:22 +0000

Wasn’t there also that one time he wore a beard made out of bees? Pretty sure I remember seeing a photo of that one.

By: Steve C.

Steve C. — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 19:02:32 +0000

Let’s not forget the BYU-Brigham Young–No beard.

By: Ben Park

Ben Park — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 18:55:15 +0000

I love little vignettes like this. Thanks, Ardis.

(Also, I sympathize with Brigham right now: sometimes, you just get lazy and refuse to trim your beard. On a related note, my wife says she can sympathize with Brigham’s descendants.)