Title |
Oral history interview with Cleona Larsen Remington about Cleona's husband, Walter Page Remington by Lapoint Elementary School sixth grader Monique Greedhead [Transcript] |
Creator |
Remington, Walter Page; Remington, Cleona |
Publisher |
Utah Historical Society |
Date |
1987-04-05 |
Access Rights |
Utah Historical Society |
Date Digital |
2024-05-02 |
Spatial Coverage |
Lapoint, Utah, United States https://www.geonames.org/5777061/lapoint.html |
Subject |
Baseball; Boy Scouts; Children; Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints; Death; Family; Fishing; Friends; Golf; Humor; Leatherwork; Mountains; Personal narratives; Picnics; Philosophy; Ranching; Reading; Sports; University of Utah; Utah. State Road Commission; Woodworking; Yellowstone National Park; Youth; Salt Lake City, Utah; Uintah County (Utah) |
Description |
Oral history interview by Lapoint Elementary School sixth grader Monique Greedhead with Cleona Larsen Remington about Cleona's husband, Walter Poage Remington. Topics include: Walter's appearance and demeanor; His love of reading and participation in scouting and youth programs; Having lots of friends; Loving his family; Setting a good example for his children; His disciplinary philosophy; Taking his family of picnics in the mountains; Going fishing; Playing baseball and other games; Traveling to Yellowstone; Walter's good sense of humor and love of sports; Serving his community, country, and church; Ranching; Working for the State Road Commission; Supervising the maintenance of University of Utah buildings; Walter's love of working with wood and leather, cooking, and barbecuing; Walter's mother's death when he was age fifteen; Attending school in Salt Lake City; Enjoying golf; Walter's desire to become a doctor, but unable to afford medical school; and his kind and caring way of caring for those in need. |
Collection Number and Name |
Mss B 1637 Uintah County (Utah) Oral Histories Collection, 1974-2002 |
Type |
Text |
Genre |
oral histories (literary works) |
Format |
application/pdf |
Extent |
3 leaves |
Language |
eng |
Rights |
|
Source |
Mss B 1637 Uintah County (Utah) Oral Histories Collection, 1974-2002 |
Scanning Technician |
Michelle Gollehon |
Metadata Cataloger |
Amy Green Larsen |
ARK |
ark:/87278/s6xfj4k0 |
Setname |
dha_uhsoh |
ID |
2535920 |
Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6xfj4k0 |