Found at last ... the veritable garden of Eden ...

Rev. Van Slyke’s booklet said it all and more: Galesville and Trempealeau, Wisconsin, are great little places. The photo I use as the masthead for my blog was taken at Perrot State Park, in the area Rev Van Slyke describes fulsomely.

“Although apparently not formally ordained, Van Slyke read the Bible from cover to cover more than 20 times and preached wherever a group of believers wanted him. He became convinced that the Garden of Eden as described in the Book of Genesis had in fact been located at Trempealeau, Wis. He makes that claim in this tiny (ca. 3x5 inch) pamphlet which he published himself in 1886.”