We found the Fountain of Youth!!

Yes, we did! All of the shops in Nauvoo are manned (and womaned?) by Senior missionaries. There are bread bakers, weavers, candle dippers, coopers, blacksmiths, wainwrights, brick makers, rope makers--all kinds of period occupations. In front of each shop there are usually two cars--with license plates from Utah, Arizona, Texas, Colorado--that belong to these missionaries. They spend all day demonstrating and teaching about their particular craft. The kicker is that every night at 7 pm and 8:15 pm these missionaries gather together at the Cultural Hall to present a show, "Rendezvous in Old Nauvoo!" It is an hour of energetic singing and acting with a little bit of almost dancing thrown in. These septuagenarians weren't in rocking chairs watching reruns waiting for visits from there kids--they were so active and happy. We were so impressed with them. When I grow up I think I'd like to be a missionary too!