Comments about ‘This Is the Place monument isn't quite at actual 'Place'’

So What!

The beauty of this country is that you have a choice of what you read. If you don't find this article interesting, don't feel like you need to read it! I, on the other hand, found this article very informative.

This article offers some fascinating details on the settlement of the Salt Lake Valley.

Stay the course. Keep the faith. The wagon train of the Church will continue to roll on while the stray dogs bark at the wheels.

Don't return railing for railing. wwJd?

Actually, Pres. Young, upon viewing the vast, unwelcoming desert of the valley, said, "Wait, let me check my map, again!"

Pres. Young did not have a map when he entered the Salt Lake Valley. It was used to start a campfire in Wyoming.

Actually there is another "This is the Place Monument" not mentioned in this article. Sorry I can not give you an exact location. The reason I know there is another monument is in our youth several of us used to hike to the Zoo passing the CCC camps in what is now the Upper campus of the U of U going on to camp, until the Zoo opened, in the area now the "This is the Place Park." At that time we could have shown you the "two" (2) monumnets or markers. the one I reffer to is East of the present monumnet and as I recall is flat not as the one viewed in the article.
I have enough space to say we used to wave to the pilots as the few down the canyon and they waved back.

Brigham was using the time tested "Visionary GPS"

As stated, the actual quote was "This is the right place. Drive on!". He was speaking to his driver. His driver was Green Flake. Green Flake was a young man of 19 years old, a convert of 3 1/2 years, a close friend of Brigham Young, a former bodyguard of the Prophet Joseph Smith, and one of three black men in the Vanguard company.

Green Flake married a sister of the two other black men in that company, raised children who attended school with everybody else's children, had his own 20 acres in Union, remained faithful all his days, had the honor of helping to dig Brigham Young's grave, and was one of a handful of survivors honored at the 50th anniversary in 1897. He designed and carved his own headstone, with his own personal motto "In my Father's house are many mansions". It stands today in the Union Pioneers' Cemetary.

I think it's interesting, but I'm a genealogist and love history. It's pioneer day after all. What better to write about than pioneers.
Myself, I'm surpriseed Brother Brigham didn't bail out in Nebraska and say take me back to Nauvoo.

I have always said, "There are do'ers and bubblegum chewers!" The interests of some may not only be disliked, but despised by others because they are still looking for the real way to blow their own nose and toot their own horn.

To Yrag Notyalc,

"I have always said, "There are do'ers and bubblegum chewers!" The interests of some may not only be disliked, but despised by others because they are still looking for the real way to blow their own nose and toot their own horn."

What are you babbling about? I guess you have things all figured out because you can write a name BAKCWARDS! How impressive!