On Thursday, Ginger drove us and her children to Hanover, New Hampshire, the home of Dartmouth College. It was wet from a light rain. Local parking was scarce, but we eventually found a vacant metered spot that allowed us enough time for lunch and our quest.

Rauner Library at Dartmouth

Our goal was to see the first edition Book of Mormon there.

The library with the first edition Book of Mormon

We entered, kids and all, and the kind librarian set us up to examine the book in the main reading room.

Rauner Library reading room

Here it is:

The friendly librarian and the Book

First edition, 1830

First edition cover

We made a serious examination of the Book.

Examination of the Book of Mormon

I also found interesting this first edition of the college literary journal:

The Dartmouth, first edition

Concluding our examination, in the square fronting the library, we passed the construction of the structure that would underlie the annual Dartmouth bonfire that weekend.

The bonfire structure

We didn’t return for the bonfire. But it’s worth seeing:

Lunch was at the local Subway, and then a rainy drive back to Massachusetts.

For the evening’s dinner, we called in for some pretty good BBQ take-out from Blue Ribbon BBQ of Arlington that Elliott picked up on his way home from work