U of U digitized images of Duchesne

Danen Lott found these images that were recently

digitized at the University of Utah.

Most of these pictures were from the era 

of history long before my time but most of these 

were while my father and his family were there.

They moved from Holden to Duchesne in 1913.

I cropped this image from one of the images

where more of Duchesne was in the image

but I wanted to get a close-up of the 

building where I attended K-6th grades.

It was torn down when I went to 7th grade 

in the high school across the street (1965-66).

I was playing marbles on the front walk

the day President Kennedy was killed in 1963
as he was riding in the motorcade in Dallas Texas.
I later visited the museum in 1972 while
serving my mission in Texas.

I ran across the bridge many times 

when walking home.

I also ran across the bridge many times 

when walking home. (Not sure if it is the
same bridge as in the other photo but Duchesne
had two bridges like this one.)

The Cozy Theater was in the center of these buildings.
We, Marie, Pauline and I, watched a movie there
the night Pauline and I graduated from high school.
I loved the nickel suckers because if you were lucky
one would have a star on the inside of the wrapper
and you would get another one for free.
That is where I saw Bambi for the first time and
couldn't watch it again for many years because of the
forest fire scenes. (I was pretty young when I saw it.)

My father was in the High Council

when this picture was taken.

He is fourth from the right on the back row. 

If I remember correctly this was one of two pinnacles
up strawberry river 20 miles more or less from Duchesne.

This reminds me of my Grandparent Poulson's home.
(I don't know if it was theirs or not.)

Our barn was used for dairy cows and I wonder also
if this is where the milk was taken each day.

This looks like it might be the road headed
East out of town just after crossing the river.

I have wondered if one or two of my 

uncles could have been in this image.

A child in the aisle

A child in the Aisle

I was sitting on the second row of the chair seats during our stake conference general session right in line with the aisle on the left side of the chapel.

As the session got longer the small children too young to color in the pamphlet that the primary children were each given got more and more restless.

Our granddaughter Zoey by that time was in the hall with her dad and other parents were still struggling to keep the young ones occupied and quiet.

Zoey even ran into the chapel from the left side and Scott was quick to hurry and get her, he thought she was headed back to sit with the rest of us.

About that time a small boy somewhere between one and two years old was also wanting to run. His mother would let him walk a couple of steps and when he wouldn’t return to her quiet whispers then she would reach out and take hold of his arm and slowly guide him back into their seats. This happened a number of times and as I watched the thought came to me that our Heavenly Father is much the same way with us. We want to get out on our own and do things and He will whisper to us that their might be danger or some other thing that He knows we are not ready t experience. So after a few wrong responses from us He will reach out His hand and slowly lead us back to safety. Now that reaching out may be simple talks in meetings or conferences helping us to understand the gospel and discover things that we need to change to return to the safety of His guidance.  I thought it a very special lesson given to me as I sat receiving instruction from our Stake leaders and Elder Blake Roney our visiting general authority.

14th and last post of several for our trip to Oregon and Washington over spring break

Our last hike was over to see where Brooklyn

went to school and to play on the playground