Friday, March 1, 2013
SOUTHERN UTAH MEMORIES: The Atomic Test Named Dirty Harry
SOUTHERN UTAH MEMORIES: The Atomic Test Named Dirty Harry: “Everything that could go wrong with Shot Harry went wrong,” wrote Philip L Fradkin (Fallout: An American Nuclear Tragedy, 1989). Shot Harry was the ninth in a series of eleven tests of nuclear dev...
Found this link as well while browsing things today. Here is a link for the Southern Utah Memories section of KCSG. That might come in handy too, and interesting to browse as well.
Downwinders and a picture I photo napped from FB.
http://www.designmom.com/2012/07/downwinders/
http://www.npr.org/blogs/krulwich/2012/07/16/156851175/five-men-agree-to-stand-directly-under-an-exploding-nuclear-bomb
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBc493_NfNM&feature=youtu.be ( "Jay & John Wayne: A Downwinders Story" trailer)
I came across the first link today on designmom's blog- one I really like. I decided to just share all of the links since this is something many are probably familiar with. I don't remember hearing anything about atomic bomb testing until I was an adult. I think I talked to my dad Glendel about it some after there was a series about St. George on PBS (not sure the angle, but it talked about the Downwinders and dances and things). I'll have to see if I can find that on Youtube as well. No luck yet.
While searching I found this little history on "Utah's Dixie" not super high tech, but well done!
Just because Aunt Cliveen posted this picture on Facebook, today I saved it and decided to put it on here because I commented about the Piano I never knew they had, but Tara remembers it. A post with a picture is better than one with no picture, right? Great picture. I see a lot of my sister Lynette in Grandma Eardley's face, as well as Cliveen and Heather and Hollie- must be the eyes.
I love seeing pictures I've never seen in any album of my dad's. Speaking of which I really should go through my hard drive and see if I have pics scanned from his birthday party that I could share on here. Not sure where it is at though. I'll have to do some digital digging. And I really need to go through the pictures I took with my 110 camera growing up, and get them scanned. Perhaps a summer project? That'd be fun. They aren't super, but they are memories!
http://www.npr.org/blogs/krulwich/2012/07/16/156851175/five-men-agree-to-stand-directly-under-an-exploding-nuclear-bomb
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBc493_NfNM&feature=youtu.be ( "Jay & John Wayne: A Downwinders Story" trailer)
I came across the first link today on designmom's blog- one I really like. I decided to just share all of the links since this is something many are probably familiar with. I don't remember hearing anything about atomic bomb testing until I was an adult. I think I talked to my dad Glendel about it some after there was a series about St. George on PBS (not sure the angle, but it talked about the Downwinders and dances and things). I'll have to see if I can find that on Youtube as well. No luck yet.
While searching I found this little history on "Utah's Dixie" not super high tech, but well done!
Just because Aunt Cliveen posted this picture on Facebook, today I saved it and decided to put it on here because I commented about the Piano I never knew they had, but Tara remembers it. A post with a picture is better than one with no picture, right? Great picture. I see a lot of my sister Lynette in Grandma Eardley's face, as well as Cliveen and Heather and Hollie- must be the eyes.
I love seeing pictures I've never seen in any album of my dad's. Speaking of which I really should go through my hard drive and see if I have pics scanned from his birthday party that I could share on here. Not sure where it is at though. I'll have to do some digital digging. And I really need to go through the pictures I took with my 110 camera growing up, and get them scanned. Perhaps a summer project? That'd be fun. They aren't super, but they are memories!
Sunday, November 20, 2011
Oh Brothers....
I asked Venna (Chadburn) Petersen to share some memories with me. This was a little while ago, I think something came up and I forgot to post this. But actually, I think it fits in nicely this time of year....
Here is the conversation via Facebook:
Me: Aunt Venna, I was thinking about house in Veyo and the big bedroom. Just wondering if there are stories about trying to get all the kids to sleep at night. I would assume many shared a room?
Venna: Well there was three bedrooms with a parlor. Later in life the Parlor became a fourth bedroom. The rooms were very cold with many blankets piled on top. No heat in any of them. So you got in bed fast in the winter, got your spot warm and stayed put. Sometimes even covering your head up. You could blow your breath into the air and it would cause steam it was so cold.
In the Summer months in the old Granery their were two beds and the boys would sleep out there when it was warm.Mother always made alot of quilts to keep us warm. Sometimes she woulf fix a hot water bottle, Or heat an old iorn on the stove and wrap a towel around and put in the bed to warm it a little bit. Very rarely did you ever have a bed alone. The boys would come in take you from the warm bed and put you in a cold one, when mother found out they were in trouble.
After I was the last at home then I had my own bedroom. It was a cold old farm house, with just the heat in the kitchen.
Hope this helps you some.
Me: brothers! :)
Thank's that was a great help!
Loved this story/memory :) Thanks Aunt Venna!
(I photo napped this picture from FB- hope you don't mind :) [picture added March 2013]
Here is the conversation via Facebook:
Me: Aunt Venna, I was thinking about house in Veyo and the big bedroom. Just wondering if there are stories about trying to get all the kids to sleep at night. I would assume many shared a room?
Venna: Well there was three bedrooms with a parlor. Later in life the Parlor became a fourth bedroom. The rooms were very cold with many blankets piled on top. No heat in any of them. So you got in bed fast in the winter, got your spot warm and stayed put. Sometimes even covering your head up. You could blow your breath into the air and it would cause steam it was so cold.
In the Summer months in the old Granery their were two beds and the boys would sleep out there when it was warm.Mother always made alot of quilts to keep us warm. Sometimes she woulf fix a hot water bottle, Or heat an old iorn on the stove and wrap a towel around and put in the bed to warm it a little bit. Very rarely did you ever have a bed alone. The boys would come in take you from the warm bed and put you in a cold one, when mother found out they were in trouble.
After I was the last at home then I had my own bedroom. It was a cold old farm house, with just the heat in the kitchen.
Hope this helps you some.
Me: brothers! :)
Thank's that was a great help!Loved this story/memory :) Thanks Aunt Venna!
(I photo napped this picture from FB- hope you don't mind :) [picture added March 2013]
Sunday, November 6, 2011
Deer Hunt
This picture is of Grandma Eardley (Virginia) Russell Eardley, Chad Bunker (my brother) and myself, Jeanne Bunker (Miller). I have a vague recollection of this day, but I couldn't really tell you anything about it. I am going to guess I was about 5, but I am not sure. So lets say ait might have been taken about 1980-ish. I also know that we were camping at the "Deer Camp" with the "cook shack". It was up the high, scary, dirt road I always prayed we would not fall off of after we locked in the hub caps to put the truck in 4 wheel drive, but still it got a little swervey and I hated it!I remember the people from California had their buildings there too, and the guy I remember most from CA. was the one who wore classic converse and kind of looked like an old version of John Denver. And of course the willow tree, the out house (not my favorite building) behind the place Grandpa Eardley's horse Speck stayed. The pretty part of the creek (crick) that was close to the road and you drove over it if you went down the hill. I remember sitting around the barrel with the fire some nights looking at the moon and stars after everyone went to bed, but decided that it got kind of creepy when I was all alone, so I turned on my flashlight to walk up to our tent trailer (my favorite trailer I think).
I remember when Russ accidentally shot his brother Kyle in the head with his b.b. gun. Coloring on the table in the cook shack. The kids helping wash and dry dishes with dish towels that were soaked before everything was dry. St. George Enchillada night (my favorite) and washing our hands in the enamel bowl before we ate. I also got my first tick on one of those campouts, and tripped on some cactus one day when we went to look for someone's deer. Then Russell and I went driving on the three wheeler looking for chaparral so my mom could soak it in water and put it on my leg with a cloth because it was really sore and not all of the cactus would come out for a bit.
Those are just some random memories I have. Maybe some time I will find more pictures that will stir up some more. Oh, I forgot Bud and Denise and how she always roasted pine nuts. I also found out on one of those occasions that Grandma Eardley used to chew pine sap like gum when she was a kid. I thought I much preferred Juicy Fruit.
Happy Fall!
Wednesday, August 31, 2011
Sunday, July 17, 2011
Hey, This Is The Real Pine Valley Reunion!
I got this info off of Bertie Schmutz Facebook page. She actually has some pictures, but I can't get them on here. Not sure if I can make this, but I'd sure love to!
Crosby Family Reunion -2011
Descendants of Joshua Alma & Lena Mathis Crosby
What – 2011 Annual Crosby Family Reunion
Where – Forsyth Picnic Area – Site 1
(Ask directions at the park ranger station, your fee has been paid)
When- Saturday, August 6, 2011
Time – Assemble at 10:00 a.m. to help prepare food
Lunch will be served at 12:00 noon
Traditional dutch oven potatoes& onions, homemade root beer, bring your favorite dishes to share with all the family.
Super program to follow!
This year’s program will be about you and your family and your responsibility to your posterity. Where would our Crosby family be without Jesse Wentworth Crosby’s Journal, without Uncle Sam Crosby’s book on Jesse’s life and all of Jesse’s descendants family history, without the records passedto us from Aunt Hannah Crosby Hall and from those preserved by our cousin Mildred Bunker Bowler. Also from the other written and oral histories of our grandparents and parents. We owe all of them a great deal of gratitude not only for their lives but what they have preserved for us.
Our cousin, Carlyle Savage’s son, Paul Savage will be at the reunion to tell you about his book, “From Switzerland to St. George: The John and Barbara (Bryner) Mathis Story”. Grandmother Lena Mathis Crosby was the daughter of John and Barbara Bryner Mathis, our maternal great-grand parents and along with their parents were the first Latter-day Saint converts in Switzerland. They were also the first Swiss converts to immigrate to the U.S.and original settlers in Utah’s Dixie.
Crosby Family Reunion -2011
Descendants of Joshua Alma & Lena Mathis Crosby
What – 2011 Annual Crosby Family Reunion
Where – Forsyth Picnic Area – Site 1
(Ask directions at the park ranger station, your fee has been paid)
When- Saturday, August 6, 2011
Time – Assemble at 10:00 a.m. to help prepare food
Lunch will be served at 12:00 noon
Traditional dutch oven potatoes& onions, homemade root beer, bring your favorite dishes to share with all the family.
Super program to follow!
This year’s program will be about you and your family and your responsibility to your posterity. Where would our Crosby family be without Jesse Wentworth Crosby’s Journal, without Uncle Sam Crosby’s book on Jesse’s life and all of Jesse’s descendants family history, without the records passedto us from Aunt Hannah Crosby Hall and from those preserved by our cousin Mildred Bunker Bowler. Also from the other written and oral histories of our grandparents and parents. We owe all of them a great deal of gratitude not only for their lives but what they have preserved for us.
Our cousin, Carlyle Savage’s son, Paul Savage will be at the reunion to tell you about his book, “From Switzerland to St. George: The John and Barbara (Bryner) Mathis Story”. Grandmother Lena Mathis Crosby was the daughter of John and Barbara Bryner Mathis, our maternal great-grand parents and along with their parents were the first Latter-day Saint converts in Switzerland. They were also the first Swiss converts to immigrate to the U.S.and original settlers in Utah’s Dixie.
Saturday, July 9, 2011
A Memory From My Childhood
I remember one year that we were at Grandma Eardley's house, Heather and Hollie were there too, and of course Russell and Kyle were over there and we were playing good guys and bad guys (cops and robbers- in my memories we always seemed to play that game).
Kyle figured out how to get on top of Grandma and Grandpa's camper, and was using it to "shoot" at us (our guns were our hands and we made sound effects) We all started to get up there and Grandma came out. I'll admit it wasn't the safest place to be in hindsight so it wasn't a surprise that she yelled at us. We all got down but we were snickering because of what she yelled at us. She said, "You kids better get down from there! If your grandpa saw you up there he'd skin ya alive!" Somehow we didn't believe her that Ferle would actually do anything but tickle us. I think he had seen us up there before her and didn't say anything actually.
The other thing I remember is how badly Hollie was teased by Chad and Russell about her gun noises, "Pe-oom, Pe-oom!" Sorry Hollie, but I can't share one memory without the other.
Kyle figured out how to get on top of Grandma and Grandpa's camper, and was using it to "shoot" at us (our guns were our hands and we made sound effects) We all started to get up there and Grandma came out. I'll admit it wasn't the safest place to be in hindsight so it wasn't a surprise that she yelled at us. We all got down but we were snickering because of what she yelled at us. She said, "You kids better get down from there! If your grandpa saw you up there he'd skin ya alive!" Somehow we didn't believe her that Ferle would actually do anything but tickle us. I think he had seen us up there before her and didn't say anything actually.
The other thing I remember is how badly Hollie was teased by Chad and Russell about her gun noises, "Pe-oom, Pe-oom!" Sorry Hollie, but I can't share one memory without the other.
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