June 3, 2016. Antiques Archeology and Nauvoo, IL. Do you watch American Pickers on the History Channel? It features Mike Wolfe and Frank Fritz driving around the US "picking" antiques from barns, hoarders and collectors. Their base is the Antique Archeology store in Le Claire, IA. The third player in the TV show is Danielle Cody, a tattooed woman who had prior careers as a burlesque performer and roller derby player. The TV show features the store in Le Claire and a second store in Nashville, TN.
The store opens at 10:00. By 9:45 this morning there were 30-40 people milling about in the parking lot waiting to get in. Disappointingly, but not surprisingly, none of the TV stars were on the property. We entered both buildings and looked around but the humans were elbow to elbow. So, without buying anything, we left.
The football helmet shown above looks like the one I wore in high school back in the 1940s. The Smith-Corona apparatus is an early word processor. It looks like the one I used in typing class. Just kidding. I am not that old, yet. Annie may be. Ouch!
The Mormon Church, Latter Day Saints, were formed in Palmyra, NY. Annie and I toured the home where Joseph Smith received the Book of Mormon on golden tablets from the Angel Moroni (see entry of October 10, 2012). The Saints fled persecution in the east and tried to settle in Clay County, MO. There, they were subject to additional attacks by the State of Missouri so they retreated to Nauvoo, IL. There, they grew the village from a few hundred people to more than 5000. A temple on high ground overlooking the Mississippi River was constructed and the Mormons hoped to make the community its home. But, history repeated itself. The locals distrusted the Mormons and condemned their policy of polygamy. Joseph Smith was arrested and assassinated while in jail. Brigham Young then led the believers along the Mormon Trail to the valley surrounding the Great Salt Lake in Utah.
The original temple was destroyed in the 1840s. It was rebuilt in the same location in 2002 by the LDS Church. It is an impressive structure, much like the temple built several years ago in Clay County, MO.
Tonight we are camped in Wakonda State Park about 30 miles north of Hannibal. We will be here several nights recharging for the final 250 miles separating us from home.
Goodnight.
2 comments:
Wait a second- you weren't in high school in the 1940s! Don't you go aging yourself, now!
Oh, what a future estate sale. The auctioners will be bidding to conduct the sale.
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