Thursday we got up early again and did the Trail of Hope. When the saints had to leave Nauvoo in February of 1846, they were lined up along Parley street waiting to take the ferry across the Mississippi River. A bunch of their stories are recorded and actors and actresses line the side of the street and tell these stories. We walked down the street and listened to the stories and imagined what it would be like to have been them and have to leave everything we owned. We went to the Brickyard and saw how they made bricks and saw Lucy Mack Smith's home. Then we went to the sites in Nauvoo that are owned by the Community of Christ Church. They have a visitors center, and they own the Homestead (Joseph and Emma's original house in Nauvoo), the Nauvoo House (an unfinished Hotel), the Mansion House (Joseph and Emma's 2nd house), and the Red Brick Store (the store that Joseph own and ran). Upstairs in the store was a big meeting room. Once again the tour was so different. The sister missionaries gave tours of all of the other buildings in Nauvoo and after they told the story of the building, they would testify about something. That didn't happen on the Community of Christ tour, and we could definitely feel the void. (Plus our tour guide was named Eliza and I'm pretty sure that she was born a boy that was now a girl.) We went to some other sites, the Cultural Hall (where they had dances and plays), the Tin Shop (where we learned how they made things out of tin), the Wainwright, Wheelwright, Farrier, and Blacksmith Shop (where we learned how they made wagon boxes, wagon wheels, and horse shoes). We also went to Brigham Young's house. Then we drove down and went to the Carthage Jail. The hole in the door that shot Hyrum Smith is still there. It was pretty sobering. We went back to Nauvoo and went to the County Fair and another pageant called the Nauvoo Pageant. It told the history of the saints in Nauvoo. It was so hot on this day, like 97 degrees with humidity.
Trail of Hope
Mississippi River
Names of those who didn't make it to Salt Lake
Seventies Hall
Brickyard
Lucy Mack Smith
Community of Christ Logo
The Community of Christ makes their own root beer
Nauvoo Hotel
The Homestead (Joseph and Emma's 1st home in Nauvoo)
Emma, Joseph, and Hyrum Smith's graves
Eliza our tour guide
Mansion House (Joseph and Emma's 2nd house)
Red Brick Store
Nauvoo Lake
Cultural Hall
Tinsmith
Wainwright, Wheelwright, Farrier, and Blacksmith Shop
Brigham Young's House
Carthage Jail
We knew this lady in our ward in Provo, Dixie Baker
Nauvoo Pageant
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