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Loading... The Skeleton in Grandpa's Barn: And Other Stories of Growing Up in Utah (2008)| 1 | None | 7,785,010 | None | None | 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{u2014}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."… (more) |
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None ▾Book descriptions 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{u2014}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." ▾Library descriptions No library descriptions found. ▾LibraryThing members' description
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Contents:
Never Change a Song / Fae Decker Dix
One Long Day that Went on Forever / Saline Hardy Fraser ; compiled by Marianne Fraser
Zion's Rowdies: Growing Up On the Mormon Frontier / Davis Bitton
"Hide and Seek": Children on the Underground / Martha Sonntag Bradley
The Gypsies are Coming! The Gypsies are Coming! / David A. Hales
My Garden of Eden / LaMar Petersen
Growing Up Railroad: Remembering Echo City / Robert S. Mikkelsen
"The Murderous Pain of Living": Thoughts on the Life and Death of Everett Ruess / Gary James Bergera
Kimberly as I Remember Her / Josephine Pace
When Captain Fremont Slept in Grandma McGregor's Bed / Nevada W. Driggs
Childhood in Gunnison / William G. Hartley
Inflation Idyl: A Family Farm in Huntsville / Fawn M. Brodie
Topaz, City of Dust / Yoshiko Uchida
Glimpses of Ice Skating and Coasting / Miriam B. Murphy, Craig Fuller
A Trip with the Mail / Max E. Robinson
"Redeeming the Indian": Enslavement of Children in New Mexico and Utah / Sondra Jones
Growing Up Greek in Helper / Helen Z. Papanikolas
The Skeleton in Grandpa's Barn / Herbert Z. Lund Jr.  | |
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