Archeological Dig

While we were in Kirtland Steven and Jeff had the opportunity to go and help some of the Church Historians clean out an old building. This building was the Joseph Smith Store and has been added onto and changed through the years. It was a very dirty job but they both said it was very cool.

Each of the boys found some very cool things throughout the day, Jeff found a book that was dated back in the 1930's and was a rule book for a school for boys. The historians said that the doors they are standing in front of are possibly the original outside doors during the time of Joseph Smith. The floor in one of the sections was most likely the original floor also.

This was Steven's find for the day. It is a 4X4 piece of wood that is hollowed out and if you look closely you can see on the one end of the wood that there is a long notch that was carved out of it. This was an original pipe from the time period. It was so fun to see how excited the historian got about this. First of all he said that this kind of thing rarely survives because of water damage and was imagining that Emma Smith washed dishes from this very pipe.

All in all it was very cool to go and see all the things that were in the building, it had a little piece of history from every era since the 1830's.