Dr. Eldon Dorman, Price, Utah, Carbon County oral history project, No. 10, February 4, 1994

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DR. ELDON DORMAN funeral. Eventually, we finally got this Fremont Case built. The case alone cost us fifty-four hundred dollars. Merrill Hamilton designed the inside of the case, the scenery, the painting in there and he ... I put the Fremont case together. I think we got it together in about 1981, somewhere along in there . That's my last major contribution that I made to the Museum because, then we got people like Pam Miller, who's a trained archaeologist, not a dummy like me, who was trained and had an educational background. Pam has now taken over and I don't have to worry about anything anymore because Pam can do it, you see. MT: Exactly. ED: She can do it better than I could because she has the training and the background to do it. Let's fold up. MT: I just want to ask you one more thing. ED: One more thing, all right. MT: The book that you wrote, when did you write the book? ED: I put together this archaeology book. I got it together in about 1979. Now, I started out in this way, as we had just opened the museum, we used to have lectures where people in the community could come in and learn about the museum and learn about the Fremont Culture and all that stuff. So they could direct tourists to the museum, see. So I had these series of lectures, I'd give a lecture 100