Brigham D. Madsen, Salt Lake City, Utah: an interview by Winston Erickson, January 21, 2003: Saving the Legacy tape nos. 546 & 547

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Brigham D. Mad en 21 January 20 BDM: Well I'm afraid I was not very interested in extracurricular thing . h r wa a reason for it. My father was just starting his building busin ss. I was th old t f his fi children and I was his only crew at first. So nearly every night I worked for him and on Saturday-always on Saturday-and off and on Sunday, because he wasn't very religious. He worked on Sunday as well as Saturday. So I was kept so busy working with him I didn't have much chance to do extracurricular things. WE: What kind of activities would your family engage in when your father wasn't working? Did you go on camping trips? BDM: Yes, that was the only thing he was interested in. We would go on camping trips up Mink Creek, which is above Pocatello, and my mother could play the piano a little bit by ear and her family was a singing family. Her surname was Crane. When the Cranes got together they sang, period. So my mother, my father bought my mother a piano during the Depression days-I don't know where he got the money but he did because she wanted one so badly. The night-this is before radio, TV ... that's way in the future. We didn't even have radio-we would sit around the piano, my mother would play and we would sing. We were a singing family. I remember that with a lot of happiness. So that, I think, enlightened our home, our family, our time at home. WE: When you did have time to play, what were your favorite activities as a youngster? BDM: Well, I enjoyed playing basketball, but I never got a chance to go out for basketball. I matured rather late so I didn't reach my full height of six feet, four and one­eighth inch, as the military measured me, until I was really in college. So I wasn' t. .. but in college I won the attention of the coach, the basketball coach, when he saw me playing 5