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Taddlywog
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Date: May 20, 2011 01:52AM
Local Sacramento News about Historic Mormon Island Cemetary and segragated head stones with the N-Word. There is a strong history of Mormon involvement in Californias gold rush. Samuel Brennan being one of my favorite characters. John Marshall discovered the gold to start it up. The city of Folsom has a history museum with a lot of information about Mormon influence in the area. And about 5 years ago I volunteered to help at a history festival that I was suprised to find had a heavy presence of local members including a lot of actors for Mormon living history scenes. Strange that first annual event was the only one. The link is about a local news story about some head stones at a historic cemetary. Given early racism in TSCC I am suspect at the volunteer involvement of Folsom prison inmates. Of course there is nothing in the story to link the church to this story... only the name of Mormon Island Cemetary.
http://www.fox40.com/search/dispatcher.front?Query=mormon+island&target=adv_articleI am torn if the gravestones should be remade to eliminate the offensive word. I think the damage is on the Mormon connection and I don't want the white washing. Since the inmates are offering to remake the headstones for "free" no charge to tax payers... my conspiracy theory is a certain church is secretly funding the inmates efforts to remove the embarrasing word from the grave stones. Just sayin'
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 05/20/2011 01:00PM by Taddlywog.