Show az 4 j T 40 A believe it or not this po pot und squash was raised on an ashley valley farm thirty civo years ago giant squash was raised in ashley 35 year ago by charles A hardy one week before the tit Uin tili co county it I 1 ian fair wah was to tl bekin begin inck biek b iek in ill charles A harak went out to his ills squash patch to find an exhibit to take to the fair while lu he was searching through the tile two foot lilli high vinos villes he covered it he had raised a giant with the help of a friend he lit hauled the big squash into town and d publicly public lv weighed it in front of of the pardon dodds butcher shop it weighed an unbelievable pounds the farm on which it ww rals raised is now flow owned by lewis freestone sr and is located in ashley IL y the hardys live at lit east main street in vernal when where they operate the rest haven motel at the fair winch which was hold in i tent where the uintah count county hospital H spital now flow stands the sq squash ua K won top honors it wis then tak en to to salt lake city and the utah I 1 t h state fair where it again surpassed nil all other exhibits and uon oil a blue ribbon the above wis xv taken at a the fair in tit vernal and in standing beside the lie arr IT thra of mr hard sons sit ng n on oil tit the kindt is lawrence A heird now a I 1 worker at lockheed aircraft plant in burbank california on oil the left is norwood hardy teacher at uintah high school and on the right tight ia is blaine C hardy a teacher at wapato washington the photograph was submitted to a national contest sponsored by the farm and fireside magazine the squash woh won again what finally happened to the sq squash ash mr hardy gave a uintah county farmer permission to to take it to the fair in salt lake art and d he never saw it again he ire heard eard 11 it was displayed for several severi I 1 weeks in the window of a downtown department store in halt salt lake they probably kept it until it spoiled |