Polygamy Central, USA

Here's our vain attempt to recreate the cover of John Krakauer's Under The Banner of Heaven, the book B is reading on our honeymoon. The burg pictured is Colorado City, Arizona and is famous for being the the unofficial capital of the Fundamentalist Church of Latter Day Saints, the world's leading practitioners of polygamy.

The houses in Colorado City are oddly large -- not the kind of houses that wealthy people would build, but the kind cobbled together by families that need a lot of living space.

Tourists aren't exactly welcomed there as the testy honk from a minivan of identically attired women can attest. However, you can stop in at the Meadowayne Dairy Store and pick up a variety of really tasty cheeses made from raw (unpasteurized) milk. The girls working at the store were perfectly friendly to us despite our surreptitious gawking at their extremely modest dresses over jeans.
The two employees did have a vague resemblance to each other. Estimates are that half of the residents are descendants of either of the town's two founding fathers. Warren Jeffs was the leader until his exodus to Texas and his ensuing arrest. Who's in charge now is a mystery, but it's clear that polygamy lives on.