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Fall Break in Nebraska

I never get a break on Fall Break, so this year I just packed a bag and left town. There were still things for me to do at work and I got them all done, but I didn't go in to work. 

This year we went to Nebraska. Here is Hannah in the Kanesville Tabernacle, the place where Brigham Young was sustained as the second prophet in front of 800 people. I have no idea how they got 800 people in the building.  


We also went to the visitor's center at winter quarters. Here are some journal excerpts--one of the writers is a relative.


Here is the cane that Brigham Young stamped into the group to declare where the Salt Lake Temple would be. A lot of people don't realize that after he got to the Salt Lake Valley, he organized some things and then headed back to Nebraska. Hence, his cane is in Florence/Winter Quarters.


Hannah decked out like a pioneer and pulled a handcart.

Here we are outside the visitor's center before heading to the cemetery.


Here is the temple at Winter Quarters.


Here is the cemetery. There are a lot of people here, but most graves are unmarked. There is a little map that you can get to see where your ancestors might be.


As we calculated here is where Willard Richards Bullock is buried. Hannah is standing on the spot.

Here is the plaque for the cemetery.


And here are the gates. I like how they look inviting instead of like scary cemetery gates. The rest of the long weekend I cleaned data for analysis, finished a paper with a graduate student, revised a paper in press for layout, revised a paper for a second review for publication, cooked homemade chili, made apple pie, babysat my friend's child, and went to a movie. The rest of this week, I still need to finish a project for a grant where I am a principal investigator, teach a class on library research, plan two business trips in November (plane, hotel, registration), and oversee the methodology of a center project. I am also going to mentor 20 Chinese students and visit a pumpkin patch with the preschoolers. I need to figure out how to do less stuff.

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Mike and LuAnn (Nelson) Aldred said…
WOW...Loved this post. I love them all. I don't always get a chance to comment but I look everyday to see if there is anything new. I would love to go to Winter Qtrs and surrounding are sometime. Looks like Hannah enjoyed herself. I can really see her as a little pioneer child. Grandpa said she just fit in really well in that first picture. She just blended in great. Looks like she was really there. Interesting story about Brigham's can too. I didn't know that about him. I also appreciated the info regarding the cemetery and our ancestors. You can't be that close to these things and not go see them. You are so busy. I don't know how you do it.!
October 19, 2016 at 3:43 PM
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