The Mormons are rebuilding a holy temple to redeem their past. The other is from a nearby roof, where a camera transmits one photo every minute of the workday to a website run by a Utah company called Deseret Book. That's 540 exposures a day. Few go to waste. Since January the site has had 6 million hits, most by members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Nothing is too minor or boring for the electronic audience.
Some might call this obsessive. To the physical residents of Nauvoo it is, well, unnerving. Hamlets all along the Mississippi are searching for a picturesque and salable past. In the mid-19th century the Mormons built a gleaming capital here, only to be bloodily expelled within seven years. The excavation symbolizes their return.