Feb 1832 hard to write about

I am working on my third novel in the Church History series. Writing about February 1832 was very difficult for me.

The best way I have found to write is to put myself there - and imagine what I was seeing, hearing, etc.

On the night that Joseph Smith and Sidney Rigdeon were tarred and feathered - I had a hard time "being there." Reading about it - even watching it on a video is not the same as trying to be there.

What was worse was to know that baby Joseph Smith Murdock would die from the exposure caused by the mobs.