Trip to Kirtland

While Kathie was with me in Indianapolis we went on two side trips on the week end. The first was to Kirtland, Ohio. Neither one of us had been there before. Kirtland was a site of some of our church’s history. It is interesting to see how people lived ‘in the olden days’, so much different than us today. The living conditions weren't unique to the early Saints, but what was was the sacrifices that they went through. Leaving their homes and in many cases living in more a primitive environment. Also the sacrifice that they made to make the temple. The temple was a big building in those days.

A very interesting fact was the distance between the different places. I had always thought that the homes, cities and farms were next to each other. But they weren’t. Just driving to the John Johnson farm from Kirtland took 45 minutes.

These are some pictures of Newell K. Whitney' store and house. We were told a yellow house was a sign of wealth.

This is the John Johnson home. The bed room had an intersting checkered floor.

Kirtland is also in Amish country, and we saw some of them.