tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2645379631135547997.post692327748528750189..comments2024-03-21T07:58:02.168-05:00Comments on Amateur Mormon Historian: Ward ConferenceBrucehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01543519825711760773noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2645379631135547997.post-22990226567981862112010-03-03T16:42:47.497-06:002010-03-03T16:42:47.497-06:00It sure doesn't sound like it would be interes...It sure doesn't sound like it would be interesting to read a pile of such notes. Of course, I read blogs so who am I to judge. <br /><br />If, however, I found a pile of such notes from 130 years ago written by a branch member at Cane Creek, I'd be all over them, even if they tell me nothing about the massacre. They will help me understand the people who were there.<br /><br />I'll give you another example. My mother grew up in a small, largley poor ward in downtown Salt Lake City filled with widows. It was called the 6th-7th ward. Events of that ward would seem insignificant. But when she was a teenager, a very young new bishop was called. Previous to that, he had been her Sunday School teacher and she knew him pretty well. I would love to know what she thought about it at the time because his name was Tommy Monson. Instead, I have only what she can recall years later.Brucehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01543519825711760773noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2645379631135547997.post-28837646508805326222010-03-03T16:21:10.325-06:002010-03-03T16:21:10.325-06:00In the recent past, I've thought about taking ...In the recent past, I've thought about taking notes during sacrament meeting talks as part of a larger record (a personal record of my church experience). But my inclination to do so was overcome by the feeling that no one would want to read such a record (leaving aside my sense that the church wouldn't want it).Justinnoreply@blogger.com