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A Visit to the Birthplace of Joseph Smith

I was staying with some friends at a Vermont inn in November, some years ago, when inspiration struck me out of nowhere. In the form of a 38.5-foot-tall granite obelisk.

Idling in the inn’s lobby one evening, I discovered a pamphlet touting the birthplace of Joseph Smith. The Prophet of the Latter-Day Saints and translator of the Book of Mormon had indeed been born just down the road from this inn, in a tiny hamlet in rural Vermont. Continue reading