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We'll give you a good price" "None of our four children have followed me into farming" says Marion a bit disappointedly leaning over a fence to call to his cattle "They got spoiled — they could make much more money doing other things There's nobody left to farm my family's land I guess when I'm gone the land will begone too It will no doubt be sold" He brightens as the cattle recognize his voice and run toward him across the wide field "I can call them cattle anytime and they'll come right over- he says "I get attached to a few of them to and it's real hard sell them ia the fall But you've got to do it It's part of life it's part of farming You can't be a farmer and expect an easy life" corn-huskin- t : - A —10' - ' :i':: :4 : 4" ' '"- ii: - - - ow 1 t 1 a 1 ''4 i ' ' f 1 ' r'' ' 1 i 1 ‘ i i "'' '' ' : I : 1 l : v i? gp g ' q ' ' — - li : 7k1 4 i ' - 0 4 i" I li : - - ''1 ' '''' 1 14 4 'b' I i 'el:::''''''' N t : I I oii:''' :: ':l'ir ' fr " ' 411 M'kqHF :::: ti 7i 'Z1 :' ! i 1 444 5 i 4 8 ''''''': Ii ''''A- ' - ' ( t ? - : ‘'7-- E i"440' e"- - ' 4 ' ' ' i Tammy and Danny Hardman's "playground" is by the railroad tracks IMo ''' third-generatio- n A PLACE TO CALL HOME " 4 e: I :' 1 'Sr4it" - - '1 4 l'i ''''' ' '' v:o4-A-!- I ( - Is '4' ''' -- - 4 '4 ifi t - ' lilk ' g4' 1 4r4' tt ' moo woo i bta t' ' i 1 j " lr' S411 0- I '' " ' I f I) - i ---- - i - '1" " ' ---- (tA ' - e 110:: - '- A - vow 1 i i (" k '--- 4 1 1'":7 ' ' f f i'V V )1e ' right for me" - r''''"s 1:e 4 0 is 't V Vp: Chuck-aRam- a or Lamb's He has a 1978 Lincoln Continental that he parks in a lot up the street but rarely drives unless he feels like making a trip to his old home in Sandy to visit his grandchildren "My wife died in a car accident in 1958" he says "so I raised all five of my kids on my own All of them live away now except for the one daughter in Sandy With my retirement check from the trucking company I've been helping to put my granddaughter through college 'You've got to get an education' I tell her 'You've got to do some thing good with your life" "All of my kids have tried to talk me into moving in with them" he adds "but you know I can't see it I've got friends who live with their kids and it's just not for me I want my independence If I want to go to bed at 2 in the afternoon I can do it If I want to stay up 'till all hours I can do that too And if I feel like taking a walk at 4 in the morning who's gonna stop me? No life's grand at the Windsor A lot of people might not think of living here but it's just d neatly-arrange- Takes Pride in His Land A Days Work ALPINE — Rumbling down a dusty thistle-line- d road in his trusty blue pickup Marion Healey points out an antique wheat grinder and cider mill rusting away in one of his fields next to his cattle herd and says he is proud to be a farmer At age 74 he is as old as the machinery but Marion is not rundown or rusty His finely-line- d face can't tide the frustration and fears of trying to make a living from the sand year after year but Marion is as sturdy and strong as one of his relics A farmer he knows what it is like to look at a stormy sky and pray that the clouds will part and walk outside on a clear dry afternoon and hope that somehow there will be rain He has stayed up all night to tend to sick cattle and hogs labored all day in heat snow and fierce winds to cut hay repair fences and feed the livestock and shook his head every season wondering if it's all been worth it If anything has kept Marion going it's the pride he takes in a good day's work the delight he feels every time he shears his own sheep harvests his own grain and cracks fresh farm eggs for hungry stray cats "Farming is the best medicine in the world for me" he says climbing out of his truck and putting on an Intermountain Farmsun ers baseball cap to shield his eyes from the "I've been a farmer ever since I was a young man — I'd help my father milk the cows and feed the chickens twice a day It taught me hard work and responsibility but when I got out on my own I couldn't make enough money For a long time I had to operate a crane at Geneva Steel because I couldn't make ends meet by farming alone At the end of my shift I didn't think I could take much more but as soon as I'd come out on the farm things would be different Farming has always calmed me down and cleared my mind Out here on the open land a man can get some thinking done" Marion and his wife Norma 72 have lived in Alpine for 53 years in an old white house with red trim on 200 North In the backyard there is a sheep corral and a hogs' pen a shed filled prefers to eat his meals out at - 07 am television set refrigerator and a sink along with dozens of Carl's own personal touches On the bed there is a collection of pink stuffed elephants purple rabbits and Garfield cats and teddy bear towels desert scene paintings and a Utah Jazz calendar hang from the cracked beige walls Cans of chicken noodle soup and green beans are stacked in perfect order on one shelf while a toaster and Carl's toiletries are lined up on another "The bathroom's down the hall and most of the furniture is hotel stuff but the only thing the Windsor has to take care of is my linens" says Carl proudly opening the curtains of his lone window to let in some sunlight Outside there is a dismal view of the brick and concrete building next door but Carl doesn't mind "This place suits me fine" he says "It's quiet and it's clean and it only costs me $168 a month utilities included The rooms are full all the time because a lot of homeless people stay here but none of them have given me any trouble People here keep to themselves and mind their own business" While Carl keeps his refrigerator with milk juice and snack foods he 7:4 04 'A In Room 10 of the Windsor Hotel Carl Clark sits down at his breakfast table with a cup of black coffee and the latest issue of the National Enquirer and lights the first of many cigarettes A woman has given birth to an alien baby and television star Delta Burke is revealing her secret weight-los- s plan but Carl 77 has more important things on his mind "I've got to go out and get my exercise today" he says taking a slow sip of his coffee "That's bow I spend my days now — walking around getting exercise I walk 22 blocks every day eight miles on a round trip I've been all over downtown — I know this city mile by mile inch by inch Downtown's my home and I like it Downtown I don't have nobody bossing me around" After retiring from his truck-drivin- g job 12 years ago Carl grew 'restless living in Sandy so he eventually decided to give his home to his daughter pack a suitcase and move into the Windsor Hotel at 241 S State St For more than five years he has lived above Salt Lake Blue Print & Supply in a room simply furnished with a bed dresser kitchen table black and white O'''''' '41 - Swedetown a Noisy Little Burg But Nosy Folks Not a Problem Every night Mike and Alene Hardman and their three children are lulled to sleep by the rumble of freight trains entering and leaving the Union Pacific station up the street And every morning they are awakened by the clanging of metal next door and the familiar odors of diesel exhaust and refinery emissions The Hardmans' do not enjoy living in a tiny community settled Swedetown by Swedish immigrants in the 1870s that is now surrounded by oil refineries construction firms and trucking companies instead of wildflowers and natural hot springs Mike and Alene would like to move but after more than 18 years in the small hidden neighborhood off Beck Street they feel they are stuck "I don't think there's any way that somebody would buy this place from us" says Mike 42 a truck driver who decided to move to Swedetown in 1972 when his sister offered to sell her house to him for $6500 "And even if somebody did buy it we could never make enough on the sale to buy another home" "It's not in the best part of town and it's kind of lonely for the kids" says Alene 37 "but Swedetown is cheap — it s all we can afford This place is home whether we like it or not" once-abunda- s24-41rA-ffi The Hardmans' and their children Michael Jr 16 Danny 13 and Tammy 10 no longer live in the $6500 home but in a small beige $19500 cinder block home next door on Everett Avenue A tiny pocket of grass in the front and a few sticker bushes are the only signs of greenery — everything else has been choked by the dust that continually invades the neighborhood from a gravel pit on Beck Street "This place has been industrial since we moved in" says Alene "but it's gotten increasingly worse We've sold our old house next door four times — nobody wants to stay I think it's hardest on the kids They're about the only ones left in the neighborhood and it's real dangerous for them to catch the bus to school on Beck Street" "I get lonely" says Danny "but I don't like to walk around by myself The only time I go out is on my bike Living here you kind of feel like outcasts" Although there seem to be more negatives than positives Mike Hardman admits there is one advantage to living in Swedetown "Nobody wants to live here so you're left pretty much alone" he says "I never have next-doo- r neighbors nosing around" 411141A iiWartroo ovzi7doz-i-momolumo—TWA- I 1 A st &64AAL 644&1Ld4A'rnkaS77cm1dotokS"1 |
