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====Dating the "beautiful, clear day"==== In the 1838 account Smith said that this vision occurred "on the morning of a beautiful, clear day, early in the spring of eighteen hundred and twenty."<ref>[[Joseph Smith–History]] [https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/pgp/js-h/1.14?lang=eng 1:14].</ref> Two LDS Church members collaborated and detailed a claim on their website that the date was March 26, 1820 relying on an interpretation of the [[Enoch calendar]] to calculate the date along with weather reports and maple sugar production records.<ref>{{Cite web |last1=Pratt |first1=John |last2=Lefgren |first2=John |date=2021 |title=Sunday Morning March 26th, 1820 |url=https://march26th1820.com |access-date=1 Feb 2024}}</ref><ref>{{citation |title=Oh, How Lovely Was the Morning: Sun 26 Mar 1820? |work=[[Meridian Magazine]] |date=October 9, 2002 |first1=John C. |last1=Lefgren }}. [http://johnpratt.com/items/docs/lds/meridian/2002/vision.html Online reprint] The article's authors reject many other dates that fit the weather and maple sugar constraints, including April 15, 16, 17, 18, 20, 25, 26, 27, 28, and 30. The authors appear to favor March 26 based on their theory of this date's significance in the [[Enoch calendar]], dismissing any date after April 14 as not being "early spring".</ref> Mark Staker, an expert on the sacred grove site, states that early spring would be "sometime in most likely March, April, or the beginning weeks of May."<ref>{{citation |title=Joseph Smith Papers Podcast |page=3 |url=https://www.josephsmithpapers.org/articles/the-first-vision-podcast-episode-3-transcript }}</ref>
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