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Show , " " " tb i j:' ' ~'!PI (1" "/ l' ' lkoJ:;j.l t ' ,,"::,r " ;'; .,I ~,:~,.~<::~. ,: :; Tours recall cozy ~veni. at Brigham Young home:J .... . ' , \; If RaJ BoNn t' " 0 ' J, ' I ' 1: t ' Ll; '- 1 ~ ~ ~ !~!*iit*~ ~ IeLD~~ l Tours of the historic Beehive House, residence of pioneer leader Brigham 'lbung. are free. ' "' ,: ;',', '\,' '. ~ ' ' :. • :'" ~ ~ bf~e~4;~ an4:. t: ~'l Deseret News staff writer ' . " WitJiits thick adobe-brick " t plaster w;Uls, cozy rooms and ' " - ;multiple fireplaces and stoves C, ,'~ one can well imagine Brigha~ ' :~ I ~ \1'and Lucy Decker Young's family . ~'i>~sedling comfortably into Salt '. , ;Lake City's beautiful, hospitable , :Beehive House for the brisk Utah · j winter. In fact, Clarissa Young ;JSpencer, who grew up there in '\,the 1860s and '70s, remembered 'JII~ years later exactly what it ~was like there and in the adjoint ing Lion House, ~ "During the winter ewnings," ' she wrote in her 1940 book '. "Brigham Young at Home," "we :' would pop com or make molasses candy, always saving a plate of ~e latter for Father if he were absent, for he was very fond of it E mest and Art, my brothers, would get a pan of snow over which the candy could be cooled very quickly. Then it was great run to snap it between one's teeth," 'I to~, ,r ~us ~itiuk roo~. during the ewnings, she reCalled; included ' ''merry ~ibents" put on I by the ex'tf:q~.faIIlily tn the , \ Lion.House SchO\>lroom - and ' • ". I stori~s ,to\!l. by th~ pioneer leade(:, ' . the small ,}' bedrooms and the upstairs chil~ dren's playroom with its tiI\Y cabInets fillEid with tiny dishes. > ' !'It's gOod to come with the kids now tha( they're older" and can ' ~!l, ~~ c~~ appreci$! the historY and the t ·.cil!lb;;~ ~ -bis'e~;:)l~'f he:auty cf the Beehive House. ~ With 9OIortru 1ndian cliieti; ii',;; :' saId White. who had stopped by, • "OIleil on Ii cold wiritef nig&t'~~~':· . with h~b!lnd Robert and daugh· , as we gathered around the great ; ters Li~ and Becka. ' , , Franklin stove. Father would Naomi Stone led the 20-mem.,. " n:late the details of his meeting ', ~r tour,group ~ugh the man-, With these once famous Indians; 8100, relating ~e ~tory of the ', and in the shadowy corners of ..•, ~ome !lfi,d:sprinkIing her narrathe room I could almost see for " tive WI~ anecdotes and details 1 myself the tall. majestic forms of l' a good m~ of them gleaned : \\\llker, Arapeen and Peteetneet" .. from. the boo!( a~d other ~ .Win~er is a r.me time to visit th~-<'r~d~ ~y C~ ~oUWl !~,;. histonc Beehive House, on the ' j< " ' ,,- ~1 ~ rtorthwest corner of South Tem- .,} " ', ~Ia" was ~e younges~_oC pie and State streets, for . ,:~~n, ~tone saId. and -:- to the although it can , renovators beheflt oNater generations - "kept a record and of . be busy during . the heavy ~ohday shoppmg days, activities in the home and the the cru~h IS nowhere near the community." She even kept traffic. jam of summer. swatches of cloth and carpet that D~nng ~ne of the free tours, would eventually prove useful Dana White of Tampa, Fla., was . among those admiring the luxuPlease',fu BEEHIVE on C4 I 'j' : , '. .~ ' , . "'-' |
