Salt Lake Tribune | 1999-05-27 | Page 23

The Salt Lake Tribune UTAH B3 Thursday, May 27. 1999 Mountain Men Re-Enact Past [a To Teach School Kids Lesson 3 History, brain-tanning,leathers and bison featured this year BY HILARY GROUTAGE THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE BLACKSMITH FORK CAN- YON — Glance sideways while driving the dirt road along the banksof the Blacksmith Fork Riv- the rendezvous. Jason Buttars and J.T. Vande. said club President Brent (Burnt Jeans) Gines. Indeed, said Atkin- Smithfield didn't even mind the band LaDell (Sir Hoodof Hyrum) who is anengineer therest of the merwe of Summit Elementary in primitive restrooms (rented chemical toilets) and much preferred watching the blacksmith years. Take a quick walk and be standingstill for more than 100 work orstudyingareal, live, buffalo to spelling andsocial studies Shalayne Roberts and her transformedto the age of moun- friends from Bear Lake Elemen- west. makethetrip, er and it appears time has been tain menand trappers in the wild In this neck of the woods. Memorial Day weekend marl tary boarded a bus at 7 am. to but they didn't mind, Weaving wascool. tanning the beginning of rendezvous son, not summer. The Old Ephraim Mountain Menclub has hostedits annual gathering in Cache Valley for about 20 years. This year marks the 10th that school children have been given a preview. Nearly 5,000 lucky 4th graders from Utah and Idaho got to skip school Tuesday and Wednesday to hear stories and see demonstrations of weaving, blacksmithing, a sweat lodge andbeading. “It’s easier to bring them to us than for us to go to them,” said Linda (Hangin’ Bird) Atkinson, this year’s chair of School Days at son, who shares a tepee with husyear. Within astone’s throwis an- other engineer, a former school teacher, a businessman and a flight attendant. By Friday they will bejoined by dozensofother professional types who return to their primitive roots for this re: union every year Atkinson's canvas canopyisone hides with brains was gross, they said Besides the obvious history les: of 19 stops the students will make during the day. Next to the cano py is her tepee, complete with a the entertainment scale for youngsters who bring their and mirrors. This year, the bed is drapedwitha buffalo robe canyoneight miles from Hyrum Volunteer mountain men, wo- landandshot it myself,’ son, thefield trip ranks high on lunches and spendtheday inthis full-size bed, a makeshift closet “1 drew for it on Antelope Is she said Ryan Galbraith!The Salt Lake Tribune “Mad Jack” of St. Anthony, Idaho, instructs children from Providence and Woodruff on his finely honed mountain man skills Wednesday in Blacksmith Fork Canyon, Cache County. Just don’t tell Buff, the domes- menandteensspend the week be ticated buffalo who was born on and Trader Row, mother. Cowboy Ralph Buckway of Clinton bought him and took At the brain-tanning tent. 15 year-old Quinten Garcia of Lay year, the club hired Buckway to ton, barefoot and decked out in traditional clothing, is the guide. fore Memorial Daycleaning the site and setting uptepees,lean-tos where. come Friday night, wares from hand- made tomahawks toscented candies and soap will be sold, For them, it’s pure pleasure. the island and rejected byhis himhometolivewith horses. This bring Everyone's the sameuphere He loves to go for a ride.” way said. Brain-tanningis the application Buff to School Days. hen I pull upthat trailer he’s thefirst oneto get init of animal brain andlard unto a cleanedhide for curing. a) GRAND program. Free meals will be provided to children fromJune 7 through Aug. 13 at Franklin Elementary School 350 S. 600 Westin Prov Breakfast will be served between 8am. and 9 a.m. Mondaythrough Friday. Lunchwill be served from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Christiane Kesseler, 39, the only survivor of a head-oncollision on U.S. Highway 191 on Tuesday 30 miles north of Moab in which five people werekilled, was listed in good condition Wednesdayat Allen Memorial Hospital in Moab. Kesseler was riding in a north- bound motor home when it was Lynn Evans waskilled along with her daughter, Sierra, 2, and son Case, 20 monthsold. Utah Highway Patrol Trooper Rich Haycock said Evans was returning from visiting her parentsin Grand Junction, Colo. to Farmington N.M. to meet her husband whenthe accident occurred. sa Church The town of Marysvalein Piute Countywill hold its annual reunion for former and current residents Friday through Monday Community meals will be at the Oscarson Elementa in the town of about 450 residents, On Saturday, meals will be served from4 p.m. to 6 p.m and on Sunday from noonto 3 p.m On Monday, breakfast will be Beck and Kylie Harmonsimply They might have,” Garcia said. They were thefirst people to domesticate bison and ride them, so they probably would have had some pets around.” like Shadow more But did mountain menhave pet ferrets? CMeCay Cee neeee Sie| raeb) 295-7404 LONG DISTANCE County Commissionfor its support in developinganall-terrain vehicle trail in thecounty Washington County CommisBBB Counties Making Today's Headlines served in the town parkfrom 8 a.m. to 10 a.m. Otheractivities are also planned — Hal Edwards SEVIER Wantto buy a pioneer-era cabin? One is for sale by auction in Richfield. Sealed bids should be addressed to Cabin, in care of PIUTE giggly young fans andback to the demonstration. It is hopeless, Emily Best. Susanna (BOOKCLUB | The U.S. Bureau of Land Management has asked the Washington er, Roger Weber. All were from In the pickup truck, Fawnda ract a group of away from his ferret, Shadow WASHINGTON struck head on by a southbound pickup truck that blewa tire and swervedinto the opposite lane. Killed in the motor home were Kesseler’s husband, Jean Paul Weber, 39, and his 36-year-old brothLuxembourg. ‘Try as he might, he cannot dis Buck- BATS, 195 S. 100 West, Richfield UT 84701, whichis also where the cabin is located. Bids will be opened on June 10. The buyer must agree to move thecabin off the property at his or her expenseby June20. — Hal Edwards UTAH The Provo City SchoolDistrict has announced its summer meal sionerssaid theywill look into find- ing a countyrepresentativeto help identify wherethe trail could go — Lin Alder a WEBER FROM AIRTOUCH™ CELLULAR! 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