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"The Skeleton in Grandpa's Barn": And Other Stories of Growing Up in Utah
edited by Stanford J. Layton
Signature Books, 2008 Paper: 978-1-56085-160-8 | eISBN: 978-1-56085-343-5 Library of Congress Classification F826.6.S58 2008 Dewey Decimal Classification 979.203
ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | TOC
ABOUT THIS BOOK
The loft of Grandpa’s barn in Salt Lake City was “off limits,” the trap door padlocked. For boys like Zack Lund, Grandpa might as well have hung out a large “welcome” sign inviting them to break in and see what was hidden there. In Parowan, young Nevada Driggs decided to discover for himself whether Captain Fremont had really slept in his grandma’s bed. Fae Decker Dix tells of how her father refused to accept the church’s newly censored version of a nineteenth-century hymn. To her embarrassment, he sang the original hellfire lyrics to O Ye Mountains High as loudly as he could above the rest of the congregation. All told, this new anthology features sixteen priceless stories: quirky and fun, informative and serious, but all engaging—nostalgic for when Utah was little more than a wide spot in the road, or as Robert Mikkelsen remembers, when both sides of the tracks were the “wrong side.”
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Stanford J. Layton, former managing editor of the Utah Historical Quarterly, is a visiting professor of history at Weber State University. He is the author of To No Privileged Class: The Rationalization of Homesteading and Rural Life in the Early Twentieth Century, a contributor to the Utah History Encyclopedia and Worth Their Salt: Notable but Often Unnoted Women of Utah, and editor of the Favorite Readings from the Utah Historical Quarterly series.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
CONTENTS
Editor's Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
1. Never Change a Song
Fae Decker Dix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
2. One Long Day That Went on Forever
Saline Hardy Fraser, compiled by Marianne Fraser . . . . . . . .
3. Zion's Rowdies: Growing Up on the Mormon Frontier
Davis Bitton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
4. "Hide and Seek": Children on the Underground
Martha Sonntag Bradley . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
5. The Gypsies Are Coming! The Gypsies Are Coming!
David A. Hales . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
6. My Garden of Eden
LaMar Petersen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
7. Growing Up Railroad: Remembering Echo City
Robert S. Mikkelsen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
8. "The Murderous Pain of Living": Thoughts on the Life and Death of Everett Ruess
Gary James Bergera . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
9. Kimberly as I Remember Her
Josephine Pace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
10. When Captain Fremont Slept in Grandma McGregor's Bed
Nevada W. Driggs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
11. Childhood in Gunnison
William G. Hartley . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
12. Inflation Idyl: A Family Farm in Huntsville
Fawn M. Brodie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
13. Topaz, City of Dust
Yoshiko Uchida . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
14. Glimpses of Ice Skating and Coasting
Miriam B. Murphy and Craig Fuller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
15. A Trip with the Mail
Max E. Robinson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
16. "Redeeming the Indian": Enslavement of Children in New Mexico and Utah
Sondra Jones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
17. Growing Up Greek in Helper
Helen Z. Papanikolas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
18. The Skeleton in Grandpa's Barn
Herbert Z. Lund Jr. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Contributors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Illustrations
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"The Skeleton in Grandpa's Barn": And Other Stories of Growing Up in Utah
The loft of Grandpa’s barn in Salt Lake City was “off limits,” the trap door padlocked. For boys like Zack Lund, Grandpa might as well have hung out a large “welcome” sign inviting them to break in and see what was hidden there. In Parowan, young Nevada Driggs decided to discover for himself whether Captain Fremont had really slept in his grandma’s bed. Fae Decker Dix tells of how her father refused to accept the church’s newly censored version of a nineteenth-century hymn. To her embarrassment, he sang the original hellfire lyrics to O Ye Mountains High as loudly as he could above the rest of the congregation. All told, this new anthology features sixteen priceless stories: quirky and fun, informative and serious, but all engaging—nostalgic for when Utah was little more than a wide spot in the road, or as Robert Mikkelsen remembers, when both sides of the tracks were the “wrong side.”
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Stanford J. Layton, former managing editor of the Utah Historical Quarterly, is a visiting professor of history at Weber State University. He is the author of To No Privileged Class: The Rationalization of Homesteading and Rural Life in the Early Twentieth Century, a contributor to the Utah History Encyclopedia and Worth Their Salt: Notable but Often Unnoted Women of Utah, and editor of the Favorite Readings from the Utah Historical Quarterly series.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
CONTENTS
Editor's Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
1. Never Change a Song
Fae Decker Dix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
2. One Long Day That Went on Forever
Saline Hardy Fraser, compiled by Marianne Fraser . . . . . . . .
3. Zion's Rowdies: Growing Up on the Mormon Frontier
Davis Bitton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
4. "Hide and Seek": Children on the Underground
Martha Sonntag Bradley . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
5. The Gypsies Are Coming! The Gypsies Are Coming!
David A. Hales . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
6. My Garden of Eden
LaMar Petersen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
7. Growing Up Railroad: Remembering Echo City
Robert S. Mikkelsen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
8. "The Murderous Pain of Living": Thoughts on the Life and Death of Everett Ruess
Gary James Bergera . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
9. Kimberly as I Remember Her
Josephine Pace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
10. When Captain Fremont Slept in Grandma McGregor's Bed
Nevada W. Driggs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
11. Childhood in Gunnison
William G. Hartley . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
12. Inflation Idyl: A Family Farm in Huntsville
Fawn M. Brodie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
13. Topaz, City of Dust
Yoshiko Uchida . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
14. Glimpses of Ice Skating and Coasting
Miriam B. Murphy and Craig Fuller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
15. A Trip with the Mail
Max E. Robinson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
16. "Redeeming the Indian": Enslavement of Children in New Mexico and Utah
Sondra Jones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
17. Growing Up Greek in Helper
Helen Z. Papanikolas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
18. The Skeleton in Grandpa's Barn
Herbert Z. Lund Jr. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Contributors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Illustrations