2 posts in one day.....I'm trying to catch up. We came here just before the Hill Cummorah Pageant in Palmyra on Saturday.
EB Grandin is the man who published The Book of Mormon. The entire process of what and how it transpired is a testimony that The Lords hand was in every detail of it.
It took 7 months for Mr. Grandin with the help of a typesetter to produce the first 5,000 copies of the Book of Mormon. It was a very tedious process. The letters of each word were put into a box, all backwards. When it was turned over and pressed into the paper it would be right side up. This Sister missionary told us that one complete page that she is holding, was done 5,000 times, then turned over and the other side would be printed 5,000 times on the other side of the same paper so the pages would be back to back. To me this would have been very daunting!!!
Joseph Smith wanted the books to have a leather cover so they would last. Most books of the day only had paperbacks. The BOM's are the ones that have gold covers here.
The building is the actual building. The floors and everything are the original. Of course thigs have been refurbished and air conditioning was installed.
Next door to The Grandin building is a bookstore that sells LDS books and things. We found this and Josh liked it, so I got it for him. It makes a statement of who he is!!!
EB Grandin is the man who published The Book of Mormon. The entire process of what and how it transpired is a testimony that The Lords hand was in every detail of it.
It took 7 months for Mr. Grandin with the help of a typesetter to produce the first 5,000 copies of the Book of Mormon. It was a very tedious process. The letters of each word were put into a box, all backwards. When it was turned over and pressed into the paper it would be right side up. This Sister missionary told us that one complete page that she is holding, was done 5,000 times, then turned over and the other side would be printed 5,000 times on the other side of the same paper so the pages would be back to back. To me this would have been very daunting!!!
Joseph Smith wanted the books to have a leather cover so they would last. Most books of the day only had paperbacks. The BOM's are the ones that have gold covers here.
The building is the actual building. The floors and everything are the original. Of course thigs have been refurbished and air conditioning was installed. 
Next door to The Grandin building is a bookstore that sells LDS books and things. We found this and Josh liked it, so I got it for him. It makes a statement of who he is!!!
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I LOVE THAT SHIRT!!!! :) Josh, you have such great taste in clothing! You know, even though to us it seems like so much effort to lay the letters in to print books back in those days, they probably just thought it was SO COOL... because to write out 5,000 pages by hand would be A LOT harder!! Thanks for all these great posts sister dear, I know you are having to stay up late to post them, but when you get back home it will be time to get Jon off to school, then time to go back to work and I will never get to hear your stories then. I appreciate your effort.
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