Sosie, do you know about this?

We don't know if the preacher in question was in favor of slavery or against it, but we do know that the Missouri Compromise passed in 1820 allowed slavery in Missouri, and according to this marker in Palmyra, Missouri, that is the date the first preaching in the county occurred. The stonecutting budget didn't allow for greater detail, so we're left to wonder as to what the text of the sermon spoken here that day may have been, the Holy Bible being somewhat non-committal on the subject of slavery.
The marker reads:
 "1820  1934, site of the first Preaching in County, Erected by Mt. Zion Ladies."
We stumbled onto this stone oddity today on our way home from New Orleans.  It was located at an obscure wayside rest at a convenient spot for travelers with a dog who needed to get out.
The wayside rest provided a welcome respite from our northward journey, apprehensive as we were about the miseries of Minnesota's Friday morning blizzard and warnings we had been given about the treacherous condition of the roadways.
When we arrived at the border, we were pleased to see dry and clear roads, cleared by diligent government workers just in time for our Saturday evening arrival.
We saw a convoy of about two dozen orange snowplows returning to Iowa at about 4 pm., made us wonder if there is some kind of mutual aid pact going on.
We arrived home at 6 p.m. tonight, safe and sound. Thank you!

Not much to report, despite a nasty Friday am. blizzard. Hey. This is not Atlanta!