Norman D Brockenshire was born in October of 1955 to Donald and Mary Brockenshire in Buffalo N.Y. His mother's grandparents Orville and Grace McIntosh, through the suggestion of Mary's aunt Betty Holken, gave Don and Mary a lot on Lear Rd from off the Macintosh family farm where they built a small home.
This gave Norman a young boy the opportunity on a regular basis to observe the great many arrow and spear heads that his great grandfather Orville had found after plowing. Even at a very young age it was obvious to Norm that there had to have been warfare between the Native Americans right there on that farm in the distant past.
Norm and his family joined the Mormon church in November of 1981 and became exposed to the Book of Mormon. In his own words "I knew it was true the first time I read it!" and it became his most read book, and in fact his favorite book of all the material he ever reviewed
In 1999 Norm was exposed to the concept that the entire Book of Mormon history happened in New York State and he started to research upon the topic of Indian Burial sights in western New York State. Little by little he began to piece together the history of the pre Columbus occupation of the land around him.
After discovering that the water levels of Western New York were much deeper than they are today, he created a map of the area as it would have been in the distant past. He began to read the Book of Mormon again with the thought that the city of Zarahemla in the Book of Mormon was located long ago where mordern day East Aurora is today. This thanks to a book called "The lost lands of the Book of Mormon" by Carol Olive. Norm was intrigued as he found it very easy to place the cities mentioned on the map, and this because with the old geography of New York all the land marks mentioned in the text were present on this map. Although what he didn't expect to find while researching in the public library was maps of known aboriginal occupation for the area, and what really got his attention was that when he placed this map of known sights over his newly created map of Book of Mormon sights, THEY LINED UP UPON ONE ANOTHER! In his own words "There is just no way this can be a coincidence that the Book of Mormon locations fitted to the geography and are in about the same places as actual known sights of the area".
As he continued to examine the arcealogical evidence of the area and how it matched the Book of Mormon so exactly, through much observation and study and in his own words "the spirit of inspiration he has identified what is termed the "narrow pass" in the Book of Mormon or at least what remains of it!"
Norm is inviting all who are interested to communicate on the forum of this site and welcomes visitors to their home where anyone can see for themselves the things mentioned in his book