Here’s a picture of a replica of “Alvin’s Box”.  Alvin’s Box was used to store the gold plates when they were in Joseph’s possession.  Elder Poulson plans on making us a replica of this to have as a memory box. 

This picture was taken in the upstairs room of the Smith Farm Frame Home upstairs.  Visitors are not taken upstairs here because it has not been furnished or had anything done to it.  It is pretty much like it was in Joseph’s time.  This is actually a picture of the way the walls were constructed.  It is believed that this room was used for Lucy Mack Smith’s oil painting of oil cloth “rugs”.  On the stairwell wall there are child sized handprints in paint which have been protected by plexi-glass to preserve them.  I took pictures, but it was too dark  I will have to try again next time we’re up there.  It is not open to the public, but we have the “keys”.

Here we are in the Sacred Grove “on a beautiful, clear day early in the spring”.  It was a morning like this when Joseph went into the Grove to make his first prayer for which church to join.  Most often we see this day portrayed with lots of green leaves on the trees and the sun filtering through the trees.  Perhaps it was like that in the year 1820, but I doubt it.  It was most likely a clear, cool day and the leaves were probably just coming out, if at all.