{"product_id":"ultra-soft-map-sweatshirt-independence-light","title":"Ultra-soft Map Sweatshirt (Independence)","description":"\u003csection class=\"product-details\"\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eThe Sweatshirt\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis ultra-soft crew is lined with cloud-like fleece and heavyweight premium fabric that already feels broken in, with some stretch to it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eFit:\u003c\/strong\u003e Comfortable and loose; size down for a slimmer, more standard fit.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eFabric:\u003c\/strong\u003e 42% cotton, 53% polyester, 5% other fibers\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eWeight:\u003c\/strong\u003e 10.3 oz\/yd² (350 gsm)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/section\u003e\n\n\u003csection class=\"care-instructions\"\u003e\n\u003cstyle class=\"care-instructions__style\"\u003esection.care-instructions details{border-top:1px solid #d8d8d8}section.care-instructions details:last-of-type{border-bottom:1px solid #d8d8d8}section.care-instructions summary{cursor:pointer;display:flex;justify-content:space-between;align-items:center;gap:12px;padding:12px 0;list-style:none}section.care-instructions summary::-webkit-details-marker{display:none}section.care-instructions summary::after{content:\"+\";flex:none;font-size:1.5em;line-height:1}section.care-instructions details[open]\u003esummary::after{content:\"−\"}section.care-instructions summary h3,section.care-instructions summary h4{margin:0}\u003c\/style\u003e\n\u003cdetails class=\"care-instructions__block\"\u003e\u003csummary\u003e\u003ch3\u003eCare Instructions\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003c\/summary\u003e\n\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0923\/2957\/4772\/files\/Screenshot_2026-09-18_at_4.40.25_PM.png?v=1789771279\" alt=\"Care symbols: wash at 30°C, do not bleach, tumble dry low, iron low, do not dry clean\" width=\"248\" height=\"43\"\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMachine wash at 30°C (gentle cycle)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDo not bleach\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTumble dry low\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIron at low temperature, avoid ironing on print\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDo not dry clean\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/details\u003e\n\u003c\/section\u003e\n\n\u003csection class=\"product-intro\"\u003e\n\u003cstyle class=\"product-intro__style\"\u003esection.product-intro details{border-top:1px solid #d8d8d8}section.product-intro details:last-of-type{border-bottom:1px solid #d8d8d8}section.product-intro summary{cursor:pointer;display:flex;justify-content:space-between;align-items:center;gap:12px;padding:12px 0;list-style:none}section.product-intro summary::-webkit-details-marker{display:none}section.product-intro summary::after{content:\"+\";flex:none;font-size:1.5em;line-height:1}section.product-intro details[open]\u003esummary::after{content:\"−\"}section.product-intro summary h3,section.product-intro summary h4{margin:0}\u003c\/style\u003e\n\u003cdetails class=\"product-intro__block\"\u003e\u003csummary\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFrom the Founders\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003c\/summary\u003e\n\u003cstyle class=\"product-intro__list-style\"\u003esection.product-intro ol{list-style:decimal outside;padding-left:1.6em;margin:0 0 1em}section.product-intro ol\u003eli{display:list-item;list-style:inherit;margin:0 0 .35em}\u003c\/style\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eYou wear Peculiar People because it reminds you of an important moment. The day you got married, where you got an answer to a prayer you needed answered, where you first felt something you couldn't explain away.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEvery design we make is made to do two things:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRemind you of something special to you\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePrompt others to ask you about it\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn order for this to work, our clothing needs to be the first thing you reach for, which is why we have worked hard to ensure our fabrics, build quality, and prints are premium and extremely comfortable.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe more you wear, the more you share. All it takes is one question. \"What's that on your shirt?\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEvan \u0026amp; Bailee, founders of Peculiar People\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/details\u003e\n\u003c\/section\u003e\n\n\u003csection class=\"site-history\"\u003e\n\u003cstyle class=\"site-history__style\"\u003esection.site-history details{border-top:1px solid #d8d8d8}section.site-history details:last-of-type{border-bottom:1px solid #d8d8d8}section.site-history summary{cursor:pointer;display:flex;justify-content:space-between;align-items:center;gap:12px;padding:12px 0;list-style:none}section.site-history summary::-webkit-details-marker{display:none}section.site-history summary::after{content:\"+\";flex:none;font-size:1.5em;line-height:1}section.site-history details[open]\u003esummary::after{content:\"−\"}section.site-history summary h3,section.site-history summary h4{margin:0}\u003c\/style\u003e\n\u003cstyle class=\"site-history__map-style\"\u003esection.site-history ol.site-history__map{list-style:decimal outside;padding-left:1.6em;margin:0}section.site-history ol.site-history__map\u003eli{display:list-item;list-style:inherit;margin:0 0 .5em}section.site-history ol.site-history__map\u003eli::marker{font-weight:600}\u003c\/style\u003e\n\u003cdetails class=\"site-history__block\"\u003e\u003csummary\u003e\u003ch3 class=\"site-history__name\"\u003eIndependence, Missouri\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003c\/summary\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"site-history__row\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCenter Place\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA revelation dated \u003ctime datetime=\"1831-07-20\"\u003eJuly 20, 1831\u003c\/time\u003e, now Doctrine and Covenants 57, named this as the land for the city of Zion: \"the place which is now called Independence is the center place; and a spot for the temple is lying westward, upon a lot which is not far from the courthouse.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"site-history__row\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBuying In\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBishop Edward Partridge bought 63.27 acres west of town from Jones and Clara Flournoy on \u003ctime datetime=\"1831-12-19\"\u003eDecember 19, 1831\u003c\/time\u003e, including the ground set apart for the temple. Between 1831 and 1833 the Church bought 180 acres in Independence and 1,200 elsewhere in Jackson County, and some 1,200 Saints gathered to the county.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"site-history__row\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAfter 1833\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Saints held on to their deeds after they were driven out, hoping the state or federal government would help them get their land back. Those efforts failed. In 1904 the Church bought 25 acres here, part of it from Partridge's original purchase.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/details\u003e\n\u003cdetails class=\"site-history__block\"\u003e\u003csummary\u003e\u003ch4\u003eWhat Happened Here\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003c\/summary\u003e\n\u003cul class=\"site-history__list\"\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ctime datetime=\"1831-08-03\"\u003eAugust 3, 1831\u003c\/time\u003e: Eight elders met on a lot west of the courthouse. Sidney Rigdon dedicated the ground, Joseph Smith laid a stone at the northeast corner of the planned temple, and someone read from Psalm 87. A day earlier, about 12 miles west in Kaw Township, Rigdon had dedicated the land of Zion for the gathering.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ctime datetime=\"1832-06\"\u003eJune 1832\u003c\/time\u003e: William W. Phelps printed the first issue of \u003ccite\u003eThe Evening and the Morning Star\u003c\/cite\u003e, on a press he had bought in Cincinnati and hauled west. It was the only religious newspaper in Jackson County.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ctime datetime=\"1833-06\"\u003eJune 1833\u003c\/time\u003e: The First Presidency, then in Kirtland, sent a plat for the City of Zion. It put 24 temples at the center of town, each to carry the words \"Holiness to the Lord.\"\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ctime datetime=\"1833-07\"\u003eJuly 1833\u003c\/time\u003e: Phelps ran an article in the Star on the Missouri laws that restricted free Black people, and advised the few Black Church members moving to Zion to act with care. Missouri was a slave state. Many residents read the article as an invitation for free Black converts to come, and town leaders feared it would encourage enslaved people to seek freedom. Phelps printed a leaflet backing away from it, but the leaders called a meeting at the courthouse for July 20.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ctime datetime=\"1833-07-20\"\u003eJuly 20, 1833\u003c\/time\u003e: At that meeting Samuel Lucas, a county judge, and twelve other men demanded that the Star stop printing and the Saints leave the county. When Church leaders would not agree, a mob pulled down the printing office, threw the press out the upper window and scattered the type in the street. Bishop Partridge and Charles Allen were tarred and feathered on the public square. Mary Elizabeth Rollins, 15, and her sister Caroline, 13, grabbed armfuls of unbound pages of the Book of Commandments and hid with them in a cornfield.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ctime datetime=\"1833-11\"\u003eNovember 1833\u003c\/time\u003e: After violence started again on October 31, three people were killed in a clash near the Big Blue River on \u003ctime datetime=\"1833-11-04\"\u003eNovember 4\u003c\/time\u003e, one of them a Church member. The next day the militia disarmed nearly 150 Saints, and families began crossing the Missouri River into Clay County.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/details\u003e\n\u003cdetails class=\"site-history__block\"\u003e\u003csummary\u003e\u003ch4\u003eOn the Map\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003c\/summary\u003e\n\u003col class=\"site-history__list site-history__map\"\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe temple lot, about 300 by 200 feet of grass on one of the highest points in town, is owned today by the Church of Christ (Temple Lot), whose meetinghouse stands beside it. Community of Christ's temple and headquarters are across the street. Just southeast of the lot is the Independence Visitors' Center of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Ground was broken on \u003ctime datetime=\"1966-06-01\"\u003eJune 1, 1966\u003c\/time\u003e, and N. Eldon Tanner dedicated it in 1971. A short walk west is the Flournoy House, the brick home Jones Flournoy built in 1826. Locals moved it four blocks in 1989 to save it from a parking lot, and it now sits on Community of Christ's Heritage Plaza.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA bronze plaque near the square marks where the printing office stood. The Book of Commandments was nearly finished when it was destroyed. The Gilbert and Whitney store stood just north of it. The two-story red brick store doubled as the bishop's storehouse, and it was ransacked in July 1833.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e\n\u003c\/details\u003e\n\u003cdetails class=\"site-history__block\"\u003e\u003csummary\u003e\u003ch4\u003eTrivia\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003c\/summary\u003e\n\u003cul class=\"site-history__list\"\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe courthouse that section 57 uses as a landmark is gone. It was replaced in 1836 by the building now called the Truman Courthouse.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA conference in November 1831 voted to print 10,000 copies of the Book of Commandments. 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