Joseph and Lucy Smith's Tunbridge Farm: An Archaeology and Landscape Study

Although Mark Staker and Don Enders' book Joseph and Lucy Smith's Tunbridge Farm is a thin volume, it is thick with new information on Mormon founder Joseph Smith's parents' first home in the mountains of Vermont. The home is best known as the birthplace of his older brother Hyrum Smith. The subtitle, An Archaeology and Landscape Study, identifies the source of much of this information. The authors carried out an archaeological dig at the home that the prophet's father Joseph Smith Sr. and ...