Since the LDS Church purchased the Kirtland Temple and some of Mormonism's other important sites in Nauvoo, the next question will be: Who will describe the history of those places and how will they affect how the narrative is told?
Missionaries will staff the landmark temple and other newly obtained historic sites. They will be “supervised by professional historians and curators.”
“This is going to change Nauvoo’s story,” said Joseph Johnstun, a Latter-day Saint historian who lives nearby. “A very important part of the history is leaving. We won’t have the presence of those who stayed with Emma Smith Bidamon and her family. They will no longer be personally represented, and the stories they told are in danger of being forgotten.
All of the documents that the Salt Lake City-headquartered church acquired in this deal are well known to scholars with theThe most important ones, he said, deal with the church’s scriptures, including Smith’s revisions of the Bible . While the Community of Christ owned the Kirtland Temple, it allowed many groups to use it for services, speeches, meetings and memory-making, including gatherings by the“When a group wants to use the site, we would enter into discussions with them and just make sure that the use would be appropriate,” Grow said. “For instance, at the St.
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