OCR Text |
Show (J 'ICO By CAROL LEMON R - , ; i t. . ; I ' ' - I JUS L1- c vfl LEORA McCULLEY DISPLAYS HER ARROWHEAD COLLECTION awls, etc.) "We take those we find each season and mount them together, so we can look back on just what we found in a specific year. Just a while ago we ' found 52 in two hours. It's an exciting hobby." "It takes a certain type of person to be a collector of any kind. We just can't stand to see anything thrown away. We need another large house just for our collection. We look forward to our time spent in the hills. It's become be-come a relaxing, rewarding part of our lives." After meeting Mrs. Gilbert Gil-bert (Leora) McCulley at the County Fair, where she was Cbalrman of the Antique Division, Di-vision, I knew she was some-one some-one you'd like to visit. She lid brought just a small part ,er collection of bottles, glassware, old fashioned valentines, etc., to display tt the Fair, and I was indous to have a glimpse atthe rest of her collection. "I actually wasnt much ; an outdoor girl until Gil-tert Gil-tert and I were married," said Leora. "He loves the outdoors, and was always prospecting, or doing some other outdoor activity, so I nnt along just to be with bin. When our boys were small they loved exploring caves, hiking and collecting ,y bottles they'd come across. At first I tried collecting col-lecting rocks, but that didn't really appeal to me. Then jlong came arrowheads and bottles, I really enjoy collecting col-lecting those." The McCulleys are parents par-ents of three sons and one iaughter and have three grandchildren. "Albert's father was a TelegrapherMiner at Frisco. The family still had some claims there so spent a lot of time in that area. Most of our bottle collection was found on top cl the ground." The McCulleys have literally hundreds of bottles, all types torn the old fashioned ink wells Leora's specialty to medicine, perfume, etc. We commented on the delicate, unusually shaped stoppers in some of the bottles. bot-tles. "Oh, we have a large jar full of those," Leora said. "Usually what happened happen-ed was that the bottle had broken, but the stopper, be -la; smaller, stayed intact." "My mother had some beautiful things she'd kept lor the sixty years she and dad were married. She passed on to me some lovely love-ly dishes and glassware. A favorite possession is her first wedding gift, a beautiful beau-tiful wedgewood-type plate given to her by her uncle, Philo T. Farnsworth." "For many years we sold pine nuts commercially. We'd take along a big, old metal suitcase to hold our clothing. When we returned torn one trip we noticed that our cat was doing everything she could think of to get Inside that suitcase. Finally we opened it and under the clothes we fcund a pound and 1 half of nuts neatly stored a rat who had crept in toough a tiny hole." We often camped near the Wlans who had come out ewww to the hills for the same reason we had to gather pine nuts. They used the old method of cooking the nuts. They'd dig a big pit, build a fire in it, add a layer lay-er of dirt, then the burrs and cover it over. They knew just how long to let them cook. Sometimes the nuts tasted of turpentine from the burr, but they were good and many people preferred them." "The easiest way we've found to cook just a few for eating is to use the electric elec-tric frypan. Just turn it on as high as it will go put in the nuts and a few drops of water though at this time of the year the nuts usually have enough mois-' ture in them then let them steam for a few minutes. They're delicious. If you add too much water they will get hard." "We've had lots of fun experiences ex-periences and our favorite times together have been in the hills. I even got lost once! When Gilbert came to the pickup and saw that I hadn't eaten my lunch he knew I was lost. This was in December, there was snow on the ground and it was very chilly and dark. He built a big bonfire to attract my attention, but I had wandered around the other side of the mountain and couldn't see it. I built a bonfire on my side and stayed stay-ed near it to keep warm. Finally about ten that night Gilbert found me. "How did you ever know where to look for me?' I asked. "Well," he said, "I just sat down and tried to reason it out. I knew if you couldn't see the fire I'd built you must be on another side of the mountain." "Anyway I was really glad to see him." "We've seen lots of interesting inter-esting things in our travels. Once, on a mountain top by a glacier near Circleville, we came to a beautiful meadow. From one side we could see Minersville Reservoir, Res-ervoir, on the other side Piute Reservoir shone in the . sun . In the middle was a vast area of beautiful wood, sanded by the wind to a lovely smoothness and twisted into fantastic shapes. It resembled a bone yard. I tried to find my way back several times, but haven't found it yet. I'd love to go there again and bring home some of that beautiful wood. It could be used so many ways." "We lov e collecting arrowheads." ar-rowheads." (TheMcCulleys have hundreds, from the tiniest bird points, beads and amulets to the large spears, |