The Skeleton in Grandpa's Barn

by Layton, Stanford J.

• ISBN13: 9781560851608
• ISBN10: 1560851600
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-02-28
• Publisher: Signature Books

Summary

If one thing stands out in Zack Lund's memories of his childhood in Salt Lake City, it is the loft of Grandpa's barn. It was strictly "off limits" to children; but for Zack and his cousins, Grandpa might as well have hung out a "welcome" sign inviting them to break in and see what was hidden there.

Table of Contents

Editor's Introduction	p. ix
Never Change a Song	p. 1
One Long Day That Went on Forever	p. 8
Zion's Rowdies: Growing Up on the Mormon Frontier	p. 21
"Hide and Seek": Children on the Underground	p. 38
"The Gypsies Are Coming! The Gypsies Are Coming!"	p. 59
My Garden of Eden	p. 72
Growing Up Railroad: Remembering Echo City	p. 83
"The Murderous Pain of Living": Thoughts on the Life and Death of Everett Ruess	p. 96
Kimberly as I Remember Her	p. 127
When Captain Fremont Slept in Gramdma McGregor's Bed	p. 136
Childhood in Gunnison	p. 141
Inflation Idyl: A Family Farm in Huntsville	p. 167
Topaz, City of Dust	p. 177
Glimpses of Ice Skating and Coasting	p. 187
A Trip with the Mail	p. 205
"Redeeming the Indian": Enslavement of Children in New Mexico and Utah	p. 220
Growing Up Greek in Helper	p. 244
The Skeleton in Grandpa's Barn	p. 261
Contributors	p. 267
Illustrations
Residents of Parowan, ca. 1920	p. 2
Victims of the Castle Gate mine disaster, 1924	p. 10
Members of a young people's Poultry Club, 1913	p. 22
Women on the polygamy underground, 1880s	p. 40
A family of Gypsies, 1906	p. 60
Eva, Ollie Mae, Vivian, and Ruth Petersen, 1913	p. 74
The railroad repair shop in Echo, ca. 1900	p. 84
Everett Rues, 1930s	p. 98
Kimberly, Utah, ca. 1900	p. 128
Sarah Fish Smith, ca. 1854	p. 138
The Gunnison school house, ca. 1900	p. 142
Fawn Brodie and family, 1916	p. 168
Children in the Topaz concentration camp, ca. 1943	p. 178
A Utah boy with a sled, ca. 1900	p. 188
The Robinson mail buggy, ca. 1925	p. 206
Students at Whiterocks Boarding School, ca. 1900	p. 222
Helen Papanikolas as a young girl ca. 1933	p. 246
A Salt Lake City street car, 1910s	p. 262
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