Naked Mormon History Travel Log 040717

Naked Mormonism Podcast

Bryce Blankenagel

Ldschurch, Christianity, Latterdaysaints, Religion, Ldschurchhistory, Mormons, Religion & Spirituality, Mormonhistory, Bookofmormon, Mormonism, Josephsmith, Mormon

4.7 • 680 Ratings

🗓️ 8 April 2017

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Most of today was spent looking through microfilms of Luman Walter's probate file. He must have been somewhat wealthy because the surrogates who handled his possessions afterwards did a fantastic job of cataloging all of his personal inventory. The rest of the day was spent at the Hill Cumorah visitor center talking with a delightful elder missionary.

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0:00.0	This is the Naked Mormon History Tour Travel Log for April 7th, 2017.
0:08.0	Today was incredibly busy.
0:11.7	I mean, yeah, I wanted to spend a bunch of time in the Palmyra Faye at New York area,
0:18.4	you know, see the Joseph Smith home and go to the Whitmer home and everything.
0:22.4	But it just, I couldn't make it happen today because I spent all morning chasing down old
0:27.8	documents. Now, these old documents are in relation to Lumen Walters. And hopefully I, we've found, I found, we have found what we consider to be our
0:42.6	bolstering evidence for the theory that Joseph Smith was using hallucinogens.
0:48.3	We'll have to see how it all plays out and how the historical community assesses the evidence.
0:53.2	And I'm not going to share it, of course, on the actual podcast because, you know,
0:57.5	I can't tip my hand until I have a full, you know, a full royal flush in it.
1:02.5	But that being said, it has been an incredibly productive day.
1:08.6	As soon as I woke up, I went to the Ontario County Records Department and spent
1:12.6	the morning reading through Lumen Walters'
1:14.8	microfilm file.
1:17.2	This information is not
1:18.7	available anywhere except at the
1:20.7	Ontario County Records Department on
1:22.7	their microfilms.
1:24.8	And I have to say,
1:26.3	the guy was, well, fascinating and apparently quite eccentric if
1:34.5	were to take the, the news articles that were written about him on face value. So it was a very
1:41.2	fruitful day. And I spent most of the rest of the day driving around Gorham and trying
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