Blog 10 - The Crandall Printing Museum

I thought the Crandall Printing museum was pretty interesting. Even though the tour was rather long I learned a lot about the printing press and got a lot of new insights that I had never really taken into consideration before. Probably the most interesting part for me was the early history of the printing press. Its creator Johannes Gutenberg was very strange to me. Mainly because he hired six crews when he knew he didn’t have the money. This was very peculiar to me and made me agree with the tour guides that he must have been inspired to do that so he could spread the printing press around the globe. The other thing that interested me about the early history of the printing press was that it was such a long process. I couldn’t even imagine myself working on a printing press because it just seems so frustrating because there are so many little things that can go wrong. However, I think that I feel that way because I am from a different generation and am use to such technological gadgets as the Internet. I am use to printing a piece of paper in a minute and not spending an hour putting in every piece of type and such. The process was just very interesting to me and made me think a lot about the printing press. The other part of the tour that was interesting was when we all learned about the printing of the Book of Mormon. I liked this part of the tour because it seems somewhat unrealistic that they pumped out the Book of Mormon as fast as they did. They printed five thousand Book of Mormons faster than anyone thought was possible. Crandall one of the tour guides and the creator of the museum told us that he believed that there wasn’t any divine intervention in the creating of the Book of Mormon. He just believed that God gave them strength that they didn’t know they had. That is how they finished the Book of Mormon as fast as they did. I don’t know if I agree with his theory. I know that God had to give some kind of divine help but I don’t know how he did it. I think personally I will give all logical possibilities open on how I think he helped the printers print the five thousand copies of the Book of Mormon. I thought that the Crandall Printing museum was very interesting and I though it was a very good educational experience. I learned a great deal about the printing press from the museum and I feel that I would have never learned that much about the printing press if I didn’t go to the museum for class. Overall, I was very grateful for the experience of going to the Crandall Printing museum.