Show Your Heritage and You Snow College will soon be opening opening open open- ing its doors for another year of achievement As we contemplate contemplate contemplate plate its future lets let's not forget the past Canute Peterson a great colonizer colonizer colonizer col col- and leader in this valley initiated the founding of Snow College and should be remembered remembered remembered as one of its builders His granddaughter Sarah D. D Jensen stated that Snow College really began in the late around the dinner table of Canute Canute Canute Can Can- ute Petersons Peterson's home As church authorities stayed there he approached approached approached ap ap- ap- ap them with the idea of ofa a higher institution on of learning The stately old ho home e where this and so many events took place has somehow managed to survive almost a century and stands empty next to the bank as asa asa asa a forlorn reminder of its more glorious days and recalls to us our debt to the builders of our heritage Lets Let's give it another look and contemplate its possibilities Plans are now under way for pioneer museums in Manti and Ephraim P People here as well as all former residents are urged to help by saving their pioneer relics One by one our precious relics are disappearing from among us for public and and private collections collections collections even out of the state The latest loss to our communities is the restored Johnsons Johnson's Army wagon now gone to Salt Lake Things that are part of our local history should remain here for the edification of our own children as well as helping to portray our story to outsiders who might stop to look It is tragic to let our unique heritage slip away from us while at the same time people from all over are looking for property here so they can enjoy the very things that we ignore Shall the over-crowded over cities have everything The answer is isan isan isan an emphatic NO It is important that individual culture be maintained maintained maintained main main- in the sm smaller ller ties Sometimes things which we label as eyesores are the very things that attract and interest outsiders whether they be artists artists artists art art- historians or just tourists Let Lets Let's s not kill the goose that might lay a a golden egg for us If you have anything that pertains pertains pertains per per- to our pioneer heritage please save it for our own museums museums museums mu mu- in South Sanpete and watch the columns of this paper for further information |