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We visited the RLDS (oh, sorry, Community of Christ) site again today to finish off with the artifacts we missed last week that we didn't get to see in the Visitor's Center.  There were only a couple of things we missed, such as the old headstones of Joseph, Hyrum and Emma Smith, the story about how they were moved back in 1928 to higher ground and finally placed them in their final resting place (see earlier post).  Of course, they don't allow pictures inside their buildings or visitors center.  However, we moved on to the "Red Brick Store", their sales store, and managed to get some pictures there.  No signs so, why not?  They had some nice people there and they weren't so antagonistic to us missionaries.

The upper room of the Red Brick Store where the Relief Society was organized and held their meetings.  The RLDS Church (Community of Christ) also held meetings here at one time.

Joseph Smith's desk in the upper room.

We were also able to talk to an archeologist about the work she was doing.  These were located in the basement of the store. She was putting together remnants of items they have found at the Nauvoo Mansion.  She was fascinating and very excited about her worked and we had a delightful conversation with her.  An altogether different experience from the previous encounter with the tour guide a few days before.  It was actually like talking to one of our missionaries and she didn't seem to have an axe to grind.  Very pleasant and informative.

More items from the dig.  She had all kinds of stories about many of the items she was working with so it was very informative and interesting.