Friday, July 16, 2010

Hill Cumorah




Moroni Monument
at the top of
Hill Cumorah
Deon, Roger, Gary, Suzanne, Kathy




Workers weeding flower beds




Around the bottom of the monument were large metal plaques depicting some significant moments in Church History.


Looking down on pageant stage and seating

Hill Cumorah Pageant
America's Witness For Christ

The crowd is gathering.
There is supposedly seating for 7000.



Before the pageant begins, the cast members wander among the crowd. They talk to the audience and are willing to pose for pictures. Some costumes are very elaborate. The cast comes from all over the country. The following are some of the 700 cast members.


Lehi



Heber C. Kimball



One of the three wisemen










The stage was quite a distance away from where we were sitting and it is hard to enjoy a performance with a camera in front of your face, but Reed captured a few scenes.









Great preformance!

I didn't know what to expect, but I really enjoyed it.

The Cooper Shop

The senior sister volunteers usually presented information about the cooper shop while their spouses talked about the barn. Click to enlarge:




Thursday, July 15, 2010

Threshing Barn


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Reed had turns telling visitors about the barn.



Frame Home

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Front



Reed going in the back door




Side view with garden




Kitchen sink









The golden plates were hidden under the brick hearth


Log Home

This is a re-creation of the Smith Family log home. It is built on the footprint of the original home. As with all the constructed replicas on the Smith Farm, much research was done to make the details as accurate as possible. Mother Lucy kept a journal and did a great job describing her surroundings. This is where Joseph lived when he went to the woods to pray and where Moroni appeared to him in an upstairs bedroom.




The garden was enclosed with a fence.
Instead of fencing animals in, they fenced them out.



Bedroom in the main floor 'add-on.'
This was a bedroom for Lucy, the 9th child.



Main floor bedroom of Joseph Sr. & Lucy Mack Smith



Kitchen



These two beds are in the girls' upstairs bedroom





These two beds belong to the six boys...
Can you imagine 3 to a bed?





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