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Show GDaMos 18 t 5 f I ; 5 Thursday July 31; 2003b Chairs are tribute to craft skills, then and now BY DELOA SHARP C Boys vs. girls: Our A 22-ye- ar test lot has been go potty in her little written potty chair Adam about boys would take his off and girls, their difso he could potty ferences, and wherever he was at whether or not they the time are taught to be We would dress that way There is a April in her new Faster dress and theory that we are who we are because she would kxik of our environment prettv all day long and upbringing Put Adam in his We can now put that new Easter suit and he would find a theory to rest Mark and Gayle There is a difference mud puddle someVan Wagoner between boys and where even in a diouuht, within 10 minutes girls, our experiment has If April accidentally made a proved it to us bodily noise, she would turn red Twenty two years ago our in embarrassment Adam turned twins, Adam and April, were born From day one they shared making bodily noises into a scithe exact same environment ence to see how many decibels a They spent their formative veais buip could generate the Adam rode a bike befoie same in rixnn sleepages identical cribs. but April learned how to at in lixiking April ing talk before Adam ( Adam did the same decorations and colors and held equally by mom and learn how to make machine gun dad If Gayle held and changed noises car truck and airplane sounds earlv though ) April's diapers, she made sure the next change would be Adam, Adam stopped giving kisses to and the same for Mark We were daddy bv about age five April constantly switching babies to stopped giving kisses to daddy by make sure they each received about age five unless she wanted from and dad mom time equal something Plus it seemed April The toys in their rixim were discovered little boys by age available to both children and eight while Adam discovered dirt both were encouraged to explore We also noticed that Apul the world around them We would cry during the sad parts m spoke to them in the same mana movie Adam would only cry if ner and loved, held and kissed them the same way and read to we tuined off the VCR and didn't let him watch Star Wars six times them from the same books There was no difference in the in one day child We we All through his eailv years treated each way didnt treat Adam like a boy (all into high school Adam could care less about unruly hair He rough and tumble throwing footballs at his head) and we didn t just kept his Detroit Red Wings hat on If April has her hair cut treat April like a girl (all sugar and spice and eveiything nice) one tenth of an inch too short, We treated them both like the she would hide in her room until it grew back little were children they precious They were equal but definitely April s rcxnn was always a mess Adam s rcxnn was always a not the same mess April's room smelled like Regardless of their equal flowers and candles Adam s treatment and environment fiom rcxnn smelled like a sewage treatday one Adam was a little boy and April was all gul Adam ment plant We could go on and on about immediately went tor the cats and trucks while April was diawn the dilfciuH.es between our little to the stuffies and dolls gul and little bov who aient so little anv mine Our lengthy Throw a ball to April and she would sit and stare at it Ihrow expei invent pioved to us that it is the ball to Adam and he would definitely not conditioning or it In catch to the a sandbox environment at least not in our try stick would turn into a cixiking case Apul has always been a traditional gul and Adam a tradiutensil for April and a gun to tional bov llicre has always Adam April would find her older sister's Barbie dolls and try been a difference I to change their clothes and brush hey are both all grown up their hair Adam would find now and have moved away from them and sacrifice them to his home to try life on their own It is wonderful to see that April has dinosaurs, one appendage at a time giovvn up into such a beautiful would find s woman while Adam has grown mommy April makeup and put it on all over her up to be a bigger bov (Some face, Adam would find it and put things never change ) it all over our walls April would lets celebrate the difference and remove her diapers so she could go get this day 22-ye- tipper Correspondent BOUNTIFUL - Using the honed since he was six years old, Bountiful resident Don Burmngham has created copies of an 1850s chair brought from the Fast by his greatgrandfather, John Pack who arrived in the Salt ldke Valley Two with Brigham Young of chair and a the settee copies based on the chairs design will be donated to the John Pack house in Heritage Place State Park in Salt Like City The Heritage Place State Park does not accept original items due to the risks associated with the valuable pieces So when the John Pack family decided to recreate the home for the park, Burmngham vol unteered to carve the chans and settee for it "I first saw the chair when my grandmother got it when I was a freshman or sophomore in college in 1946 47 said Hie old pallor Burmngham furniture was being used as patio furniture in the family home in Kamas One of the arms was broken, so she took it and had it repaired and upliol stered Trom his grandmother the chair was passed on to Ins mother and then to his sister After Burmngham retired as an engineer for UDOT he borrowed the chair from Ins sister and proceeded to copy it The first chair took him three years to carve With the of LiVerl neighbor, help Schriever Burmngham made patterns out of plywood and mylar of the original chair Then x he set to work camng four a beautiwood of into pieces fully formed chair Ibe chair was then upholstered and used in his living room Walnut carves good The men who made the fust chair were amamg crultsmcn,' said Burmngham Out of a four x piece of wood, got a back leg and had just enough left for the front leg hey really had it figured out how to use the wood without wasting it Using a bathers raoi to sharpen his can mg tools, Burmngham has hand caned the decorative turn for the chairs Keeping the tools shaip makes it easici to cane and saves on sanding Black walnut is dark when fresh cut but turns a light brown as it is exposed to light a He has spent the last half the completing chairs and has neatly finished the settee The settee has been a skills challenge to build because no one knows what it really looked like Burmngham has scouted out settees in the Beehive House and the DUP museum but felt those samples were probably fancier than Pack's set would have been The Pack family has ordered material from Belgium or the Netherlands in the old style pattern of mohair to cover the chairs and settee Once the material arrives and the chairs and settee upholstered, they by-si- home There, these beautiful hand carved chairs will be displayed with other mementos of pioneer life They will stand as a tribute to the early craftsmen as well as to the talent and ingenu it v of today s skilled woodworkers DON BURNINGHAM has recreated the design of a chair that arrived in Utah with the earliest pioneers. August 7, 8, 9tb, 2003 10 AM - 6 PM by-si- 1 1 stu-ru- p yeai-and-- RESIDENTIAL LAND WANTED Children s Ballet Theatre TOto 400 v Is going OnNow! , value-price- d Hamlet Development creates residential communities along the Wasatch Front. Hamlet has designed and improved approximately 2,000 homes sites in 23 residential communities, valued at $294 million. Established in 1994 in Salt well-designe- VtAJ Z . HVs Hamlet Development is h properties for future residenHaljdevelopmentLjgfi lx Advanced Fall Registration Pre Ballet thru Advanced Technique Character, Pilates, and Jazz Classes Kindermusik will be sent to the John Pack 1 Iff Lake City, Utah, it is d, part of the Hamlet group of companies that includes Hamlet Homes, Stirling Mortgage and Diversified Habitats. TTi TMt |