| Show the area they never tire of recounting endless tales of humor or valor or Indians or grasshoppers or floods or drought of peas cattle sheep hogs or turkeys That quality once acquired becomespart of them so that even if they leave the area that strength goes with them My husband andvisited Lillian Fjeldsted in her home in Sandyyear or two before she died And when we left we felt we had been at home in Ephraim Lillian who worked in the School Office had interviewed my husband before he came here to teach and had always been interested in our childrenprogress in school remember our good neighbors Elmer and Maggie Sorenson often thought that Eimer wouldnhave had to keep going as he did with one good leg and one of wood that sustained his weight as he climbed about in his hayloft or took him where he drove his team of black horses along the highway Motorists would often crane to see him and point at his pioneer transportation as they slowed their cars so that their children might also see him as he came and went along the highway He enjoyed that Maggie recalled watching as her father Jens Hansen carved pieces fordecorative table that still occupiesplace in the Manti Temple She said he had made his own patterns for birds and fruit and other objects He made his glue by boiling the hooves of dead animals inlarge brass kettle in the fire place letting it cool and straining it throughcloth She thought he may have learned that method of making glue when he worked on the Manti Temple He carved dark pieces from an old Howe sewing machine that had been brought across the ocean from Denmark The lighter pieces were of native wood remember LaVon Olson who onbitterly cold night responded to what she thought were the cries offreezing kitten and set out to bring it in to her warm kitchen It proved to besmall girl who had slipped between two large snow banks into 123 |
