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Show Volume XX Issue IX The Ogden Valley news Page 9 June 1, 2012 From the Life of Anna Louise Wangsgard Note: This is a continuation of a history that ran in the May 1, 2012 issue of The Ogden Valley News. The biography outlines Anna Louise’s life growing up in Ogden Valley. She was born February 29, 1880 in Huntsville, the daughter of Christen Christensen Wangsgaard and Anna Christina Gustafsson Anderson. Once or twice during the winter the Bishop would announce a community sleigh ride. Almost every man would turn out with his sleigh, horses, and sleigh bells. The procession was headed by a sleigh containing the brass band. After going through the streets of Huntsville, we usually ended by visiting one neighboring town, Eden. In thinking of the sleigh riding I can still see the wide expanse of deep white snow which stretched on every side. If we happened to go sleigh riding on a moonlight night, the snow sparkled like diamonds. This lovely sight together with the jingling of the sleigh bells sounding out on the frosty air, I shall never forget. Two days were always looked forward to each year, Father’s and Mother’s birthdays. The brothers and sisters on my father’s side always came to celebrate and what a jolly good time this large family had playing games, talking and eating. Their loud, happy laughter could be heard far out into the street. When Christmas came, we hung up our stockings in a row. We usually received hardtack candy, apples, and oranges in our stockings and one little gift. One Christmas I found a china pepper shaker about five inches high in the design of a woman, the holes being in the back of her bonnet. This was my only Christmas present, but I did not expect more. We used to meet in the old Rock School house for our Christmas program and enjoyed the Community Tree. The parents furnished the gifts for their own children; otherwise, they received none. The school room was always decorated with many festoons of pine boughs, which filled the room with fragrance. Mother let my sister and I take a lot of responsibility in caring for the children who came after us. I helped make short clothes for Ernest when I was ten years old. Then beginning about this time, we started going to Ogden with my father to buy clothing for ourselves and other members of the family. In the winter we went in a sleigh and in summer perhaps on a large load of sacked grain. Also, my sister and I, being the oldest in the family, pitched hay, milked cows, and shocked grain until the boys were old enough to help. Each autumn when the crops were harvested, all the people turned their cows out to rustle food in the fields. When evening came, Mary and I would have to walk a few miles to find our cows and bring them home. Every once in a while we would see a cow that had lost its life being bloated from eating too much green alfalfa. Dave’s Bigfoot Update! The following is an update on BigFoot Boy, Dave Carver’s latest news on sightings and investigations on Big Foot in the area as of November 1, 2011. Watch for future information and updates on Big Foot in future editions of the paper! 1. We are following up on hunters that saw one or even two bigfoot in the Snowbasin area in the last three weeks. 2. Our Field Researcher is investigating soccer ball size rocks being thrown at hunters near the top of Farmington Peak last October. 3. He also has an investigation going on that involves hunters who found a tree structure in Farmington canyon during the last deer hunt, in 2011. 4. A hiker and our researcher witnessed a white bigfoot walking high up into a clearing east of the intersection of Hwy 89 and the Hill Field road. The encounter lasted nearly 2 min. This was near the area where an obscure video was taken of a brown bigfoot meandering in a clearing with possibly an infant on its back in the snow. This was about 5 years ago, but the site was never investigated properly. We have access to this video. 5. Another encounter involves Farmington Peak as well. Hikers experienced complete silence just under the peak and then they heard “monkey” chatter. This happened in the summer of 2011. This chatter is not uncommon with juvenile bigfoot. 6. Bigfoot tours are being proposed to take people to the encounter sites around the valley. There are over 15 of them and that is not including the three in the Snowbasin area. For more information on sightings around the area, visit <http:// utahbigfoot.blogspot.com> This site is maintained by award-winning photographer Michael Slade. Michael is part of our team, and adds a great visual perspective. For Dave’s Bigfoot Show visit <http:// bigfootusa.blogspot.com> This site contains other interesting links to many important narratives and documents on Bigfoot. You can also contact Dave at 1-801-791-0075 or at <CarverDavidL@aol.com> FARMERS MARKET cont. from page 1 Watkins, an artist who paints on a unique medium—feathers. To see his work, visit <www. jwatkins-art.com> His work is displayed in many galleries and locations around the west. Also, Shiska Yisrael, a gypsy fortune teller from Ogden. You are going to love this woman; she is fun to work with. Those who will be returning this season include Linda Knudtson of Stoney Field Farm and DidJa Makit; Michelle Green, Crepes Etcetera; Nancy Elliott, Wasatch Wonders; Athena Steadman, Simply Eden; and many more. We are still accepting vendors. If you have missed the deadline, please contact us or just come to the market and see us in person. Sponsors will continue to be accepted throughout the market season, but business names will not be on all marketing materials such as posters, letters, etc, which have to be printed soon, so don’t miss out. Sponsors are still needed too. Donations by sponsors are tax deductible. Become a sponsor and help your community! More information about the Ogden Valley Farmers and Artists Market can be found at http://ovfam.org or find us on Facebook. Vendor and sponsor applications are available on both sites. If you have any questions or would like to join us as a sponsor or vendor, you can also contact me personally at 801-745-6663 or <lknudtson@digis.net> Haze, a journeyman musician from Ogden, has been involved in the Northern Utah music scene since the 1970’s. He has managed to play with just about every musician in the region. A few years ago, he decided to get serious about his music and put together his debut CD, “My Life’s Cross Roads.” It took five years and most of his musical contacts to pull it together. The Farmers and Artists Market is currently accepting submissions from musicians to fill this season’s future time slots. For more information, email name, website, and where we can hear your music, to <che@checheche.com> Weekly Sponsors for June 2 Gage Froerer gage@c21utah.com Joan Woodruff joan@c21eden.com Peg Turner peg@ClassyUtahHomes.com Laura Bebout laura_bebout@c21utah.com Deborah Hegg deborah@edenutah.com RE Bailey Construction Robert@rebaileyconst.com Ogden Valley Business Association www.ovba.org We look forward to working with our new sponsors this season, Century 21 - Gage Froerer & Associates, Diamond Peak Mountain Sports, and Mad Moose Café. New vendors this season include Joe The Ogden Valley News is looking for Ogden Valley and Ogden Canyon historical biographies, stories, and photos to use in its publication. Please mail, email, or call Shanna at 745-2688 or Jeannie at 745-2879 if you have material you would like to share. Threshing time was very exciting. It was very interesting to see the ten horses enter the lot bringing the large red machine to the side of the stacks of golden grain and the horse power (large gasoline machine on a wagon to run the thresher). Then there was hurry and bustle in the kitchen to cook for the fifteen hungry men who helped. One bushel in every seven was given to the threshing machine crew for their work and use of the machinery. My grandmother Anderson carded, spun, and colored the yarn for our stockings. She also wove cloth from homemade yarn from which was made petticoats and dresses for us older children. Mother knit stockings for all the family. I see her now holding the baby and the knitting needles flying over and under very swiftly. Each winter toward spring, Mother would buy about 100 yards of unbleached factory (muslin), wet it, and stretch it out on the snow to whiten. The sun in the day and the frost at night would bleach it in a couple of weeks. One time someone tried to steal the cloth at night but it had frozen so tight to the snow it was torn in strips on each end, but it would not let loose. From this factory (muslin) we made sheets, pillow cases, underwear, petticoats, diapers, and other things. There was, for many years, the old rain barrel below the trough or valley of the roof to catch the rain water so soft and nice for washing clothes. In the winter my mother usually melted snow the evening before wash day. The boiler filled with snow as put on the stove. More snow was added as this melted. When the boiler was full and the water hot, it was poured over tubs full of snow and this made more nice, soft water for washing clothes. But the floors became wet from the heaping tubs of snow and produced a big mess. John Hislop (called Jack) lived a half block south of us. He was a stonecutter and worked on red sandstone. He helped build many of the houses in Ogden. He was an excellent cornet player and often played for dances. Mary and I spent those evenings with his children as they were somewhat afraid to stay alone. We sometimes slept there all night. I still remember the clean bedroom with its white-washed walls and snow white curtains. We were so happy to look at a large book with red binding. This was a real treat. Jack Hislop was a man of many accomplishments . . . . I remember my father furnishing wood to burn in their stove so the family could keep warm. For this, Mrs. Jane Hislop gave him the book with the red-leather cover. Many years later (perhaps 30 years), even after my parents had died, I saw this book that had seemed so wonderful to me as a child and I was truly surprised to find it was Catskill’s Compendium of forms and contained very few pictures. I wonder now how we could ever think it was a wonderful book. For many years we used steel knives and forks to eat with. These became discolored when they were used so we went to Jack Hislop’s stone quarry and gathered some of the powdered stone to use for polishing our knives and forks. This scouring seemed drudgery as it took a lot of rubbing to make the utensils bright and shiny and as soon as they were used, they became discolored again. Note: this historical account was taken from the book “Wangsgaard/Wangsgard: Roots and Branches 1866-1989 by Stanley Ferrin Wangsgaard (pages 333-335). From The Past . . . Dora Winter at the Huntsville telephone switchboard. Dora joined the phone company on January 1, 1918 and retried January 29, 1961 with more than 43 years of service. With the exception of the first two years, Dora served as the Chief Operator of the Huntsville Exchange. Photo courtesy of Nancy Richardson. Jeffrey D. Shepherd DMD, MSD Specialist in Orthodontics shepherdorthodontics Fast Treatment Times • Children and Adults • Flexible Payment Options Call to schedule your complimentary exam today! 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