I had grown up reading The Great Brain books. My mom read them to us first, but after that my brother and I re-read them repeatedly over the years. The tattered books remain as evidence of our undying devotions to the stories.
The itch for research didn't begin until years later, when I finally read Papa Married a Mormon. The book stuck to my heart in a way no other book had. Questions abounded. I was sure a quick internet search would answer the questions. I was wrong. No such site existed. Eventually my husband found one called, Searching for the Great Brain.
It was the sweetest site. A family of homeschoolers had read the books. They then set out on a trek finding Adenville. On the site they had some pictures, some brief descriptions, and some links. Sadly, they never found Adenville. For me, they were the first "finders".
