The Crandall Museum

I thought the visit to the Crandall Museum was very interesting. I always knew about Gutenberg and the invention of the printing press, but I never realized all of the work that had gone into each piece printed on it and the evolution that it undertook to bring us the Book of Mormon. I loved seeing the passion that the men who owned the place had for printing and its history. I'm not going to lie, there was a part of me that said, "If I were a boy back during these times I would totally having to go with printing for my apprenticeship-ness thing." I also thought the machine that they used to make a line of moveable type was so amazing! Watching its pulleys and levers move all over that place was fascinating. I know that there are ways which make our inventions of today very beautiful, but there was such obvious creativity that came with some of the inventions that they had during this time period.

I really would love for the Crandall Museum to be more advertised around the church. I feel as though it wouldn't have an extremely difficult time pulling in tourists considering the amount of LDS people that come to Utah to see Temple Square and the like. How easy would it be for these same tourists to take the short drive down to Provo to learn more about the production of The Book of Mormon. It definitely gained a special little place in my heart and will probably suggest my family visit it when they come out over the summer.