Marty and Wendy Quinn fell in love and married in 1982. The Baha'i couple then fell in love with a work by Baha’u’llah -- The Seven Valleys -- and the idea of turning it into a musical.

While student-teaching in Houston, Nebraskan Kerri Molczyk is keeping folks at home up to date on her experiences through “The Phony Houstonian,” a column she writes for the Spalding Enterprise in Spalding, Neb.

Robert Hayden surmounted an impoverished childhood to become the first African-American to be appointed Poet Laureate.

Helen Elsie Austin, a Baha'i who devoted her life to justice and truth, was a woman of many “firsts.” She was one of the first African-American women lawyers in the United States, the first African-American woman to receive a law degree from the University of Cincinnati and the first African-American woman to serve as an assistant to a state attorney general.

Louis Gregory reached more people than any other advocate of racial harmony in the first half of the 20th century, says Gayle Morrison, a Baha'i who has researched the life and contributions of Mr. Gregory, an early U.S. Baha'i.

Van Gilmer vividly remembers participating in the March on Washington (for Jobs and Freedom) on Aug. 28, 1963, while a student at North Carolina A&T State University in Greensboro.

Kevin Locke doesn’t just talk about unity. The internationally acclaimed performer literally jumps through hoops to make audiences aware of the critical need for harmony in the world.

Hit with a major illness, Craig Farnsworth, has found great comfort in the prayers and writings of the Baha'i Faith. Baha'i Brian Kurzius also was inspired by the writings and has compiled those that had the most profound impact on him in the newly released Hidden Gifts: Finding Blessings in the Struggles of Life.

Sahba Rohani, 30, a kindergarten teacher in Brooklyn, recently went to Istanbul, Turkey, to be with more than 30 relatives, who, like her, belong to the Baha'i Faith.

John Birks “Dizzy” Gillespie, who became a Baha'i in 1968, would have been 90 this Oct. 21. He was at the forefront not only of the bebop jazz phenomenon, the most vital music of its age, but of a jazz generation that included Thelonious Monk, Nat King Cole and Ella Fitzgerald.