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Show THE SAN JUAN RECORD Wednesday, May 1 1, 2005 - Page 12 Ever met someone famous? You may be from Blanding if: you have ever met someone famous. Jerry Bradford once pumped gas for Robert Redford. As a maybe five and a half miles. Then wed go on a little farther. How far is it down there now? Oh, maybe six or seven waitress, Chrishawn Harris miles. Anything to keep him Louis served busy. Well, to make a long story LAmour - and . wBLANDING short, we finally accidentally got him down to dripped coffee on MeMailOiV him. Nevertheless, the bottom, and Celebrating Family, Friends, Traditions he got off his mule he tipped her a by Terri Winder and pulled a tabfive dollar bill. She asked him to autograph let and a pencil out of his the bill and then gave it to her pocket, and sat down on a rock and in ten minutes handed me grandfather, a LAmour fan. The Acton family met lots of this: The Grand Canyon Mule famous folk in their Elk Ridge Restaurant. And Zeke JohnOh, feed him well before we start, son acted as guide for Edgar Give him of hay A. Guest. Following is the and eats enough. story of that trip, in Zeros own For I have no wish words: when we depart This is a story about taking To watch him some tourists down the north dine off yonder bluff. rim of the Grand Canyon, just You say the mule after the Bright Angel trail is sure of foot, was finished. It was six miles And I believe from the top of the rim to the the statement true, bottom of the canyon. The But mules which reach guides had their riding horses for herb and root to go on, but the tourists in the From narrow ledges party rode on big government chill me through. mules. It was my lot to take care of Ive every confidence in him, And Id trust my life Edgar A. Guest, which I prounto my guide. ceeded to do. So we started But on that down and after we had gone dreadful chasms rim, about a quarter of a mile, the a Im somewhat nervous trail kept getting steeper, when I ride. little narrower, and a little Great precipices, as a rule more crooked. Now these great big mules Are fearful things in sun or shade, go up and down nearly every lush and the grass grows Which proves, of course, day, down there. If the mule sees Im not a mule I couldnt some green grass up high as he goes along, he reaches up walk them unafraid; to get it; and if there is some a But when two feet little down under the rim, he below the edge kneels down to his knees to get A patch of greens it. And they just go lumbering my mule can see, You do And cant reaches for it along. anything with them. You just sit on from the ledge, them and let them go. He makes a Mr. Guest, not being a horsenervous wreck of me. I know there are many a man, just kept drawing short Mr. do breaths. morsel sweet Johnson, you think well get me down there Along that narrow safe; do you feel Im secure? winding track. Oh, sure you are, just sit But, Zeke, cant you tell him not to eat, there old boy and take it easy, and hell get you down there. At least while I am How much further is it on his back. down there now, do you think? (one of Edgar A. Guests lesser known poems) Oh, its only about six miles, . REWARD OFFERED School classes enjoy Leonardo on Wheels and to the ordinary From April 14 to 19, seventeen San Juan County school district classes experienced the Leonardo on Wheels (LOW) art, culture, and science exhib- its outreach program at Monticello High School brought to us by The Leonardo at Library Square in Salt Lake City, in partnership with the Colorado Plateau Science Center. On April 16, 45 family members of the community also experienced this event. Three staff from Leonardos helped families in San Juan County throughout the week, including Joe Andrade the Director of the Utah Science Center, a Distinguished Professor of Bioengineering at the University of Utah; Mike Anderson the Director of the Leonardo on Wheels, who is a graduate student pursuing his Ph.D. in Bioengineering; and Noah Ledbetter, who is the LOW Road Manager and is pursuing a Masters degree in If you have information about the trailer theft, 6 or the Monticello please call (435) Police Department at (435) 459-182- 587-227- requires thinking beyond boundaries and barriers - that science facilitates art and that artistic creativity facilitates science. The goal of The Leonardo on Wheels - Science is to provide opportunities for students, teachers, and parents to be inspired and empowered to see dis- beyond cover more fully the world that surrounds them. What is it that changes peoples minds? What inspires them to think and act in new ways? 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