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Show - I - - V r Jim lUldum l The Comete n : nr, of the mares ....having an experienced second sense of which animals likely would bolt and buck with a stiange pair of boy s legs astraddle astraddle the least frisky linin'- i i'.t 11 m ttu. tie cLuh liv.ud (ino.'-- t of in and the lusewieut Sunday School are no more than fracments of uipuiouesuou Mon' uud is the recollection of the great bamlike I m certain, though, that it structure really was not 1 was so small, bamlike its size has grown m my memory as I ve grown m life It was a white church; box .White clapboard sides shaped like an animal-crackfrom end to end Nails rusting in places and rust etching streaks of rouge-broat the ends of boards. Its slate-blashingles curled wifh age And, unlike most Methodist churches, it had no shield-shape- d signs Among fragment memories, too: As a matter of geography ...a concrete highway, startuning from Towson, near Baltimore, sliced tire green, River, the of crossed Gunpowder Maryland; dulating hills where once we watched, on a Sunday afternoon, in a shameful and sacrilegious manner, Holy Rollers in frantic town of baptism rites Along that road there is even a Baldwin that I never heard of until long after Maryland was as segregated from my life as is my childhood. That highway, as it approaches Jarrettsville, curves bay their past a fox hunt club, where Red Fox. of of sniff the for spoor pleadings The highway at one point curves through a small forest erf tall trees; their spreading branches keep that segment erf erf the highway cool and shaded, even through the heat August. The church was distant from any highway. From the ribbon erf concrete there stems into farm and woodland with thick, stickyf a narrow dirt road.. ..a road axle-dered mud when rams fall or snow melts. When the weathers right, though, this road makes riding a buggy as soft and smooth as skimming smooth lake waters in a canoe, or riding high winds in a glider. And the horses hooves settle firmly and quietly mto the soil of the road. Such a road.... half a dozen such roads lead from all directions to the church. On a summer Sunday morning - and a blend of scores of such Sundays makes the recollection more vivid - buggy mares (sometimes converted saddle horses) pranced along gateway; the dirt roads; turned through the always-openstopped before the church front steps to deposit passengers; then drove on to a stall in the buggy shed Some for farmers, however, had no such horses suitable only lighter purpose. We had a team of Percherrais draft ck outside to identify minister or to designate the hours of sen ices It could have had, of course, but I never noticed fenced-in-houn- it u 1 K.-- But it did have a belltower and a steeple. Without the tower it never could have served as a church. It could have held many tons of hay. Itwould have been a fine barn. And, I remember that in winter folks wore overcoats during the services 'Its either heat for the Sunday School (in the more we easily heated basement) or heat for the church havn t enough fuel for both, a now faceless1 mmister m striped mommg trousers and swallow-ta- il coat once explained This church served poor farmers, a blacksmith, a school teacher. And they had many sons and daughters of varying ages The church had a buggy shed ...a shed also offering as they appeared on the scene, protection from the weather for Model As - shiny ones -- and more battered Model T s. And their sputtering still frightened the horses, even in the later 1930s. The earth beneath the slopmg, shingled shed roof had been ground to a misty dust by the hooves of impatient horses, confined over a thousand Sundays to waiting through Jihe hour of worship. The buggy shed, in summer months, attracted children just out of Sunday School. Parents sat upright in pews -one ear hearkened toward a sermon; an ear attuned to hear a familiar childish voice outside; anxious that the voice of the child would not imply involvement in mischief. This related rally to mothers, of course. Fathers slumped in the pews and dozed until they were nudged to halt their snoring; or until they were aroused and dispatched to restore proper Sabbath decorum among children. These are fragment recollections; brief slivers of glimpses mto a past which included the delight of climbing the buggy shed rafters over one stall toanother... bouncing into that buggy seat that was cushioned the softest; seated w V .. g v. ...ss .vl'V X Iy x v.sw ;.x Celt place t fucKd meet fox IuhcA dfocxHt1 btodk nti Kosher Food - Pastrami Corned Beef Cheese Cake Decorated Cheese and Cold Cut Trays for Your Office Meetings and Parties. Bagel-Lo- Xu - x herntuA Salt Lake's First and Best helicateMen 63-16- 5 East Broadway (3rd South) 363-826- -- 1 ds ep One, named Hazel, powerful and clumsy to ride. Another named Ned. Hell of a name for a mare,' folks declared, even on Ned, though, was gentle; at ease the churchgrounds. before the plow, a manure spreader, a haywagon, or a yellow-wheelbuggy with frisky whip at the drivers left hand In summer months - and m some late spring or early autumn months - mostly in summer, though, there was the churchyard cemetery. Now, Im sure the cemetery was there the year around. Im certain that it was noticed in winter snows and autumn ed f Xv Vs . Jv WvssXs-Wv- . Major business discussed at of the Deseret News speaking. He did make one pertinent the Salt Lake Civic Auditorium Board meeting Monday comment though," said Mr. was the Rocky Mountain Re- Hunt. 'There was one true statement." That was about view. uncomfortable chairs. It started something like the concurs with other news This this,: Have you seen those blue media. You can tell Baldwin," containers outside the houses he looked at the Review rethat we will lately? We dont have one on presentative, to do something our house, fortunately. But endeavor half the people on our street about it." have those things. Ill get some vibrating Did you read Baldwins chairs, "said Marv Jenson. The board then wait on to article in the Review last week?' The remark was direct discuss more trivial matters toward Jim Hogle. He said while the local weekly was Ed Hunt had bushy eyebrows." passed around the table while Mr. Hunt put on his eye- one board member after anglasses to demonstrate how he other smiled after reading could look over them., hi cj mt the column j N No 1 didn't see his article. " Board members then quickGo get the Review and bring it in here. ly discussed new land acquisPlease dont bring it in here, ition, demolition progress and the appointment of Henry E pleaded Marv Jenson. You can always spray the Aloia of the Hotel Utah to room afterward. Bob Koenig replace Mrs. Esther Landa v ' V v .. V. X s , .x '. an y v a w:xx xvv x w, s xt- .. v y i x- x f he was loading gram . .bagsful onto standing on the tailgate when it gave , backwards and struck his head on a ' ; J right there. I even It was after he was buried that first learned j that George Phillips was dead. And I noticed that there . ) ' was no new grave in the cemetery J Along that ribbon of paved highway, where it leaves the darkness of the woods rairoute to Jarrettsville, there t' ; lived a pretty high school girl. She had peach-blo1 hair (at a time when girls didnt dye their hair). I never knew her name. I knew she attended our church. And when she died of food poisoning, she was not buried in our 1 1 cemetery. I recall only one other such death. Violent deaths are f so easy to remember. A man named Eli That was his f last name. He was a pig farmer He had fruit trees - j acres and acres of apple trees. And he had grain fields j, I But he was a pig farmer and . . wheat, oats and barley all of his pigs were white. They had long, narrow, bacon-ric- h bodies Mr. Eli was sawing wood on a tractor driven power saw when he stumbled and his head was He was not buried in our cemetery . sliced in two. o at, the One Sunday there was a There were hushed whispers and the youngest cemetery J of us never were told why so many people were so dis- - 1 1 1 turbed. That Sunday, even the middle-age- d ....especially the husbands and fathers, not so much the middle-age- d women, the young ladies not at aU ... approached the iron 1 1 picket fence to view a large depression of crushed flowers 1 1 in the cemetery. Clearly, someone had been lying full- j length amongst the blossoms. Some of the crushed blooms were fresh still, but most were wilted and their leaves were touched with that gray pallor of dying foliage., jH Some of us learned in a short time - by listening - that a young man named Bill, and a young girl named Maureen,, r J soon after were married There was much laughter about the crushed flowers in the graveyard. There was talk of jj J ghosts having relaxed there Next spring, when the shoots of annuals were beginning to break through the soil within the iron fence, a mid-wi- fe J waited upon Maureen, and a lovely daughter was bom. Isn t that something to think about? That a churchyard cemetery should be preserved to receive the broadcast t I seeds of flowers, and to provide the seclusion desirable to the creation of human life....for so many years after it no longer aUots its space to new deaths? 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SALT LAKE SWIMMING AIID TENNIS CLUB 109 fabrics. e PARTICIPATE 2 Circle Arts Society Organzied LEARN TO PLAY OR IMPROVE YOUR SKILL WELCOME 34 (E) n mimag SD.DK1DS FIRST (RADERS I One summer day He was a He tumbled way. large rock. He died I I m - cellar. - horses. .. Phillips and remember him because in the Autumn I drank cider tapped from a barrel in the cool of his fruit time-produc- ed But , Someone Has To Say It . downpours ... but such presence defies recollection Recollections - Have you ever noticed0 - are handy knicknacks of the mind. So often, they have only the slightest foundation in what was real In summer months, there was the churchyard cemetery A small, oblong plot that would have fit with edging to spare in the church structure. It was surrounded by a black iron picket fence with spiked black pickets mosttimes (m summer) barely visible to passersby ....and not at all visible, as I recall, from the church front steps. In summer months, the cemetery was an oblong mass of shades erf red, yellow, blue and green; mottled with the black and gray of weather-wor- n wooden gravemarkers, from which names long since were obliterated There was the gray of marble tombstones - only two or three of thos - tall enough to be seen above the swaying heads of flower stalks. There were hollyhocks, and snapdragons, and bleeding hearts, and delicate, serrated petals of poppies of a score of shades of color; there were, crowding into the cemetery from outside the iron fence, encroaching clusters of Brown -- Eyed Susans. I recall some things very distinctly . ..and of these ed there is no question of shadows of memory Vivid, of course, are the mass of blossoms growing on every inch of soil; over and between grave mounds, over the entire expanse of cemetery except for the narrow black-so- il of the plot path which ran through dead-cent- er from one end to the other. No less vividly recalled: Only the- very young and the very old approached the cemetery while the floweis blossomed The old, summer Sunday after Sunday, trod the narrow pathway from gate at one end to fence at the other - until too many of them crowded the far end of the pathway. Then, all turned in unison and walked slowly back and through the gate. The young, of course, accompanied the old, or crowded about outside the fence and called to an oldster to read out the answer to Whats on that stone, Gramma9' The mothers and the fathers and the middle-age- d admired the mass of blossom from the church front steps, or from the dirt driveway m front of the steps Neither the very young nor the very old, you see, are afraid of cemeteries. To the young, cemeteries are to receive the bodies of the old. To the old, there is a curiosity about their next place to settle; burial is anticipated The recollection most often savored about that cemetery, though: .. for so long as I lived in that part of our land -perhaps five or six years - no one ever was buried there. George Phillips attended that church. I knew George their backs er L C erne ter) And There Will Be Life The J 278-265- 1 |