Show Section Monday November 2003 3 Page The Herald Journal 1 can ruin a ¥m By Kelly Davis I is fiinny how prudish Ameri-- :: cans are compared to Europeans A A Well I guess you could call its “mod-est- ” but J think they’d probably say “silly uptight Americans" I have to go to Russia & few times a year for work and I am always amazed at the differences ' In Moscow there is a pedestrian- only street called the Old Arbat The Old Arbat has shops restaurants street vendors and entertainers It’S ' - a great place In the summertime the young Russian women stroll around ' on the Old Arbat Wearing next to: ' nothing In almost all cases you can see their Underwearbr well the fact that it must be ' in the wash jf't that day It can be quite a ' sight fora Loganiteto jj behold' I have’ A? to hand it to the guys I work with however- - They V rtry veryhard not tbnoticesuch things or they are good at hiding i Come to think of it they do talk- about “bird watching" quite a bitYa" A:r£ V1 V i think that’s k code? Last summer many of the wives of ? my cowqrkers came to Moscow After a few days of touring the city ? collective response was that the full of amazing history and was city ' culture the museums were fascihat-- " : : ' ’ v: ? : it?' Brent StevSnsHgrald r rJ a v Shirley Hallstrom and Peggy Candlarid av v’V ’ -- Journal A'- tap to I- a videotape at the Logan Senior Citizens Center Thursday The tap dancers meet weekly:1 - L 'i’their V' or tan ViaKpincf Ubonclthom' hnhnintf'ariH i Krincfc momnriocM- - i hanl is" fs f Clothing is not the only thing that marks a big difference in modesty W3m between' say Lqgah Utah and rVSp' Mpscpw Riissia You ought to secWff the signsatjd billboards ph my! I think the most risque sign’we have in s Logan refers to the:“Blg and Fricndjy? Hooker” biit lira probably the onlyi'4 one who thinks that’s funny While £y we’re on the subject my second favorite sign in Logan is on k truck across points of topping S tap dancing fippity-tappin- g for Jerry’s Plumbing that says the floor they move easily and :ing impression on rpoh’t Sleepwith a Drip" Anyway Their lateJQs or 80s ’’“She’s VvrY$thai ‘rhythmically Maryjane topA$' enough to carry them through a back to the signs in Moscow let’s said Hall- - ' ’Vt6 ij shoes have rounded toes with metel A ter withouther professional ' t: 'v'Vjustsay that you’d have tocOyer : stroni like Hallstrom a said heel dances “She and toe admiringlywhy the tap lessons ceased Now in pieces to produce the y- ybiir husband’s eyes everywhere you She’s in bbth beautiful her later yeare she’s enjoying hall of sound queen signature tap dancing:-body: Apparently tap dancing brings which is not going to win any-A Shirley HallstrOm one of the '"an’d spirit effects similar to the Foun- : fyAoyeragajn:::-one a “safe driver” insurance dis? tain of Youth Caiidland recalled that Candldnd said she found tan ’Refnre Ihesunbirds fled hack'tnr Hnnrprs: inked ’“If vnu look nt : - 1 win-inh- s er - : ! : v - -it ‘':A-Awith- I vv count' ’ ? ! - 'iwent ? - dniii-e-'-A- j On my last trip I had to facie the prudity (new word issue piersonally:' : After the long plane ride I had an ' achy back and decided to splurge on a massage I went tq the heath club :' The guy at the desk handed me two ' ' towels and a pair of slippers In fairly " good English he instructed “Go to " locker room Wear towels and slip-pers Return io lobby" My heck that “lobby" served the health ciub as well as the gym and pool area People were milling about everywhere and this guy wanted me to come oiit there iit two towels? I ' went into the women’s locker room and spent 2Q minutes working with those two towels until I had a ere- ationthat would have made the women of Bombay piroud! OK I’ve had American massages ' before and usuallythe masseuse makes sure you are always covered in critical areas Well this was no ' prudish American massage After the masseuse worked on my back she suddenly yanked off my lovely towel creation exposing my hind end and ' proceeded to work over my posterior After I picked my jaw up off the floor and sent a silent apology to my mother who I am sure somehow knew of this in Utah I tried to relax You know what? All those hiney muscles are connected to the back muscles! Who knew? It was the best massage I ever had! V Of course the next time I get a massage in Logan I’m probably going to scare the massage therapist to death People are so uptight! Beginning this summer a groupof Sun City Ariz summer residents were seeking a place to practice tap- ping When they found room at the returned The group of five Cache Valley Women who were left decided to continue using art instructional tap was “to get enough routines to be part of a program at thie senior cen- ter” arid added that new members A in the practicesession soon felt ' rather warm ahd breathless while the older dancers kept tapping along ' with rip discernible strain But Cand-: J are welcome : 1 ‘ : : - Katty DuBois Davis is a technical writer living in SmithfieW She can be reached at utahdaisy20030yahoocom Disappointed bride hangs on to past By Sue Parsons Rakes watched “Coal Miner’s Daughter” sat in the theatre sobbing I couldn’t understand why people were laughing during the parts that made me cry Later I realized that to them it was entertain- mentjmt to me it was life In 1980 m 1 I While none used to stay after school in order to be with a beaUtiful young woman school ' who cleaned our one-roohouse She was always happy She was also in love and planned to be married to a handsome coal miner named Bill Her name was Opal Ann She wore a diamond ring which Bill had given her She lived up a hollow with two maiden older sisters who had helped make a wed- ding dress and other beautiful things ' for her hope chest All was ready Then tragedy struck There was a cave-i- n at the rnine and Bill was killed 1 Fifty-seve- n years ago the door to the room that held the wedding dress and trousseau closed I heard rumors of my family were miners I saw how it affected others Men young and old spent most of their daylight hours underground I saw children of miners storing longingly at things in our country store dial they could never have The miners and their families also lived with the fear of a caverin or explosion in the mines One such incident has haunted me since I was a small child so while I was on my fall trip to Appalachia I decided it was time for closure When I was 8 or 9 years old I -- : of terrible grieving by both Opal 'Ann and her sisters Years passed and rumors persisted of ghosts in the sealed room I heard stories of a woman remaining faithful to the ' memory of her beloved into her old age of aged older sisters dying rutd of her living alone in the home I decided to travel into that hollow and see for myself I was greeted at the door by an elderly woman whom I recognized as Opal Ann I told her ' ESIAYNLASU COPT my request to see the room She nei-- 1 ther confirmed nor denied that the room was haunted I later talkedto ail elderly woman whb had spent the night in the room She said as she lay sleeping some- -' thing came over her face like feath- ers As I spoke with this interesting country woman a woman who has who I was She remembered the spent most of her life up a hollow in the hills of West Virginia I was sur-small girl who used to follow her around in the school house and prised at her ability to discuss curI invited rent events even if using in me wiumly stepped back in time She still cooks on a colloquialisms For example she had suffered a stroke which she wood stove and all of the furnishreferred tq as being “struck" Hew- ings appeared to be as old as the ever she was able te talk about the A farmhouse latest medical techniques which had After catching up on the news of her family in which die confirmed helped to save her life ' For a woman who only recently that both Iter older sisters had died she showed me a picture of Bill that got a telephone and has no televi- sion her know ledge of the modem was taken just before he was killed I told her that I would like to write world was a mystery until she about her ind the tragedy She said stepped out on her porch to say she would like that and proceeded to goodbye Say what you want about talk about her life with him as if it newspapers but as she bent to pick were only yesterday She had kept up her daily paper 1 knew I had my all of her wedding preparations answer closed in the room She showed me Sua Parsons Rakes is a vetenn traveler the engagement ring but declined - : ' 3E ' 5 |